Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
1 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 2 patents granted in the last 365 days
Heraeus Quartz North America LLC has 1 pending office action within the Chemistry & Materials technology area. This action is being reviewed by 1 distinct examiner, Jodi Cohen Franklin. The portfolio is active in 1 distinct art unit, which suggests a focused prosecution effort within a specific chemistry group at the USPTO. This structure allows the company to concentrate its resources on the standards of a single art unit.
Jodi Cohen Franklin is the busiest examiner for this company, currently managing 1 pending office action. With 1 distinct examiner and 1 pending office action, the prosecution process is entirely centralized. The 1 distinct art unit involved provides the technical framework for the 1 pending office action within the Chemistry & Materials field. This means that the company's current success in this sector is dependent on the specific assessment of Jodi Cohen Franklin. The singular nature of the 1 pending action and 1 examiner simplifies the communication but places significant weight on the examiner's personal interpretation of chemistry patent standards.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 1 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.
Difficulty is derived from the rejection statutes on the most recent pending office action. §101-driven and multi-statute cases are graded Hard; §112-only and obviousness-type double-patenting cases are graded Easy; everything else is Medium. "Unknown" means we have not yet parsed a statute for that office action.
| Bucket | Cases |
|---|---|
| §103 only | 1 (100%) |
How the docket's pending cases split across USPTO tech-center bands.
Manual office-action response work runs about 10 hours per case. The time-saved bands below show what IP Author's prosecution pipeline typically delivers — a conservative 20% on the low end, 35% in the middle, 50% on the high end.
| Examiner | Apps on this docket | Allow rate | Interview lift |
|---|---|---|---|
| FRANKLIN, JODI COHEN | 1 | 61.5% | +24.1% |
Cases in front of an examiner whose interview lift is 10 percentage points or more — i.e. interviewed cases historically resolve more favorably than non-interviewed ones. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18727480 | REDUCTION OF MULTI-CORE FIBER PREFORM GEOMETRIC DISTORTION | FRANKLIN, JODI COHEN | 75d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1741 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18727480 | REDUCTION OF MULTI-CORE FIBER PREFORM GEOMETRIC DISTORTION | FRANKLIN, JODI COHEN | 1741 | §103 | Final Rejection | 75d | Pending | Jul 09, 2024 |
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