Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Chemistry & Materials • Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
4 pending office actions • 4 art units • 4 examiners • 0 of 4 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 5 patents granted in the last 365 days
His Majesty The King In Right Of Canada AS Represented By The Minister Of Natural Resources has 3 pending office actions in the Chemistry & Materials technology area. These actions are distributed across 3 distinct examiners and 3 distinct art units. This indicates a range of technical subjects and examination environments within the broader chemistry field. The involvement of 3 distinct art units suggests that each pending matter is being evaluated by a different specialized group at the patent office.
The busiest examiner, STEIN, MICHELLE, is currently managing 1 pending office action. With each distinct examiner handling a pending office action, the workload is distributed. Practitioners should note that the 3 pending office actions are not concentrated under a single examiner. This variety in the prosecution landscape requires a tailored approach for each application in the Chemistry & Materials sector. The lack of concentration may lead to different timelines for the 1 pending office action assigned to the busiest examiner.
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 |
|---|---|
| §101 only | 1 (25%) |
| §103 only | 3 (75%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| STEIN, MICHELLE | 1 | 45.2% | +35.6% |
| NORRIS, URSULA LEE | 1 | 81.7% | +6.5% |
| ZIMMER, ANTHONY J | 1 | 74.6% | +20.5% |
| PULLEN, NIKOLAS TAKUYA | 1 | 52.5% | +8.4% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18129029 | Method and System for Pore-Scale Modeling of a Multi-Phase Hydrocarbon Extraction Process | NORRIS, URSULA LEE | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18033854 | AN AGGLOMERATION-BASED OIL-WATER SEPARATION PROCESS | STEIN, MICHELLE | 37d overdue |
| 17764588 | Methane Oxidation Catalyst and Method of Using Same | ZIMMER, ANTHONY J | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1771 | 1 |
| 3676 | 1 |
| 1736 | 1 |
| 1733 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18033854 | AN AGGLOMERATION-BASED OIL-WATER SEPARATION PROCESS | STEIN, MICHELLE | 1771 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 37d overdue | Pending | Apr 26, 2023 |
| 18129029 | Method and System for Pore-Scale Modeling of a Multi-Phase Hydrocarbon Extraction Process | NORRIS, URSULA LEE | 3676 | §101 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 30, 2023 |
| 17764588 | Methane Oxidation Catalyst and Method of Using Same | ZIMMER, ANTHONY J | 1736 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Mar 29, 2022 |
| 17425917 | PROCESS AND SYSTEM FOR EXTRACTION OF RARE EARTH ELEMENTS USING AN ACID SOAK | PULLEN, NIKOLAS TAKUYA | 1733 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 15d | Pending | Jul 26, 2021 |
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