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
Hublot SA Genève is managing 1 pending office action in the Chemistry & Materials technology area. This activity is concentrated under 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit, suggesting a very specific area of current prosecution. The focus on 1 art unit indicates that the company's current chemistry-related innovations are being evaluated by a specialized group within the patent office.
The busiest examiner for the company is PATEL, RONAK C, who holds 1 pending office action. A practitioner must focus exclusively on the requirements and feedback of this 1 examiner to advance the portfolio. Since there are no other pending actions, the company's current momentum in the Chemistry & Materials sector is entirely dependent on the resolution of this 1 matter. The prosecution strategy should prioritize the specific technical guidelines of the 1 distinct art unit as interpreted by PATEL, RONAK C.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| PATEL, RONAK C | 1 | 51.2% | +56.4% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18979334 | Colored Composite Material | PATEL, RONAK C | 33d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1788 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18979334 | Colored Composite Material | PATEL, RONAK C | 1788 | §103 | Final Rejection | 33d | Pending | Dec 12, 2024 |
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