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 • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
HoriBA Instruments Incorporated currently has 1 pending office action in the Chemistry & Materials technology area. The company's patent prosecution is handled by 1 distinct examiner across 1 distinct art unit. This structure reflects a concentrated effort in a specific technical domain. For the applicant, this means the entire success of the current portfolio rests on a single thread of interaction within the USPTO. The concentration in a single technology area further emphasizes the specialized nature of these filings.
John P Fitzgerald is the busiest examiner for the portfolio, managing the 1 pending office action. Since the portfolio consists of only 1 pending action, the examiner's influence is total. This lack of variety in examiners and art units means the outcome of the current portfolio depends on the interactions with this specific official. Practitioners should prioritize understanding the specific examination history and preferences of this examiner, as there are no other pending matters to provide alternative paths to allowance. Navigating this single relationship is the central task for the company's legal representatives.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FITZGERALD, JOHN P | 1 | 75.2% | +2.0% |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1728 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18452191 | OPEN AIR BATTERY EMISSIONS DILUTION AND SAMPLING | FITZGERALD, JOHN P | 1728 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 18, 2023 |
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