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
Highbury Energy Inc. operates a patent portfolio within the Chemistry & Materials technology area. The company has 1 pending office action currently under review. This activity involves 1 distinct examiner and is situated within 1 distinct art unit. The presence of only 1 active matter indicates a targeted approach to its current intellectual property filings. The data shows that the prosecution effort is not spread across multiple technical divisions or various personnel. This concentration suggests that the company is focusing its resources on a specific technical advancement.
The busiest examiner for this portfolio is ROBINSON, RENEE E, who is currently handling 1 pending office action. With 1 busiest examiner pending case, this examiner is responsible for the entirety of the company's active office actions. The fact that there is 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit suggests that the company's current legal strategy is focused on a specific technological niche. Practitioners can expect a singular point of contact for all current negotiations with the patent office. This structure simplifies the management of deadlines and responses but relies on the specific tendencies of 1 examiner. The outcome of the current filing depends entirely on the decisions made by this 1 official.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ROBINSON, RENEE E | 1 | 73.6% | +24.2% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18374636 | PROCESS FOR REPLACEMENT OF FOSSIL FUELS IN FIRING OF ROTARY LIME KILNS | ROBINSON, RENEE E | 16d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1772 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18374636 | PROCESS FOR REPLACEMENT OF FOSSIL FUELS IN FIRING OF ROTARY LIME KILNS | ROBINSON, RENEE E | 1772 | §103 | Final Rejection | 16d | Pending | Sep 28, 2023 |
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