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 • 3 patents granted in the last 365 days
Highlight Tech Corp. currently has 1 pending office action in the Chemistry & Materials technology area. This matter is assigned to 1 distinct examiner, MCDONALD, RODNEY GLENN, and is located within 1 distinct art unit. The focus of the current prosecution is therefore limited to a single technical and administrative channel. This concentration in 1 distinct art unit ensures that the technical review is conducted within a specific specialized group in the Chemistry & Materials sector.
The busiest examiner, MCDONALD, RODNEY GLENN, is responsible for 1 pending office action, which constitutes the entirety of the company's 1 pending office action. With only 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit involved, the applicant faces a streamlined examination process. This alignment between the pending action and the examiner simplifies the management of the portfolio. The presence of 1 distinct examiner ensures that the applicant has a single point of contact for the current filing. This structure minimizes the complexity of managing multiple pending office actions across different units.
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 |
|---|---|
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| MCDONALD, RODNEY GLENN | 1 | 63.6% | +24.4% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18406000 | ANTI-DEPOSITION OBJECT | MCDONALD, RODNEY GLENN | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18406000 | ANTI-DEPOSITION OBJECT | MCDONALD, RODNEY GLENN | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1794 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18406000 | ANTI-DEPOSITION OBJECT | MCDONALD, RODNEY GLENN | 1794 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 05, 2024 |
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