Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Chemistry & Materials • Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
3 pending office actions • 2 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Heritage Research Group, LLC manages a company patent portfolio within the Chemistry & Materials technology area. The portfolio currently contains 2 pending office actions. These actions are spread across 2 distinct art units, indicating that the company's current filings cover a range of technical subjects within the chemistry field. For practitioners, this diversification across 2 art units means that the portfolio is subject to different sets of technical classification standards and examination guidelines.
The prosecution involves 2 distinct examiners, providing a diversity of perspectives on the company's applications. WEISS, PAMELA HL is the busiest examiner for the portfolio, holding 1 busiest examiner pending action. This means that the workload is evenly divided, with WEISS, PAMELA HL responsible for half of the 2 pending office actions. For practitioners, this distribution across 2 examiners and 2 art units requires a flexible strategy to address the different requirements and technical focuses of each prosecution track. This arrangement reduces the risk of the entire portfolio being impacted by the preferences of a single official.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 2 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 (33%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (67%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| WEISS, PAMELA HL | 1 | 54.9% | +45.9% |
| CHU, KATHERINE J | 1 | 46.2% | +21.1% |
| RISIC, ABIGAIL ANNE | 1 | 77.7% | +7.3% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18461877 | COMPOSITION AND METHOD FOR TREATING AN ASPHALT PAVEMENT WITH A PENETRATING EMULSION | WEISS, PAMELA HL | 29d |
| 18361957 | ARRANGEMENT FOR INDUCTIVELY SUPPLYING ENERGY AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING THE SAME | RISIC, ABIGAIL ANNE | — |
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 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18461877 | COMPOSITION AND METHOD FOR TREATING AN ASPHALT PAVEMENT WITH A PENETRATING EMULSION | WEISS, PAMELA HL | 29d |
| 18240596 | LAYERED MATERIAL | CHU, KATHERINE J | 34d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3671 | 2 |
| 1732 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18461877 | COMPOSITION AND METHOD FOR TREATING AN ASPHALT PAVEMENT WITH A PENETRATING EMULSION | WEISS, PAMELA HL | 1732 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 29d | Pending | Sep 06, 2023 |
| 18240596 | LAYERED MATERIAL | CHU, KATHERINE J | 3671 | §103 | Final Rejection | 34d | Pending | Aug 31, 2023 |
| 18361957 | ARRANGEMENT FOR INDUCTIVELY SUPPLYING ENERGY AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING THE SAME | RISIC, ABIGAIL ANNE | 3671 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 31, 2023 |
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