Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
4 pending office actions • 2 art units • 4 examiners • 0 of 4 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Hybrit Development AB is managing 5 pending office actions within the Chemistry & Materials technology area. These actions are distributed among 5 distinct examiners, showing that every active matter is being handled by a different individual. The portfolio is active across 2 distinct art units, which suggests that while the examiners vary, the technical subject matter is concentrated within specific groups at the patent office. This concentration in 2 distinct art units may allow for some consistency in technical interpretation despite the variety of individual reviewers.
Anthony M Liang is the busiest examiner for the company, currently overseeing 1 pending office action. Given that there are 5 pending office actions and 5 distinct examiners, the workload is distributed with no single examiner holding a majority of the cases. The busiest examiner pending count is 1, which confirms this even distribution. Practitioners should prepare for examiner interactions within the Chemistry & Materials field across these 2 distinct art units, as the one-to-one ratio of examiners to pending actions requires managing five different prosecution styles simultaneously.
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 |
|---|---|
| §102 only | 1 (25%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| SHAMS, NAZMUN NAHAR | 1 | 80.6% | +18.4% |
| O'KEEFE, SEAN P | 1 | 65.7% | +12.5% |
| POLLOCK, AUSTIN M | 1 | 51.3% | +36.1% |
| SMOOT, MORIAH SIMONE MCMIL | 1 | 63.9% | +6.7% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18575896 | IRON BRIQUETTES | SHAMS, NAZMUN NAHAR | — |
| 18571212 | PROCESS AND A SYSTEM FOR THE PRODUCTION OF SPONGE IRON FROM IRON ORE | O'KEEFE, SEAN P | — |
| 18571210 | HYDROGEN GAS RECYCLING IN A DIRECT REDUCTION PROCESS | POLLOCK, AUSTIN M | — |
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 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18575896 | IRON BRIQUETTES | SHAMS, NAZMUN NAHAR | — |
| 18571212 | PROCESS AND A SYSTEM FOR THE PRODUCTION OF SPONGE IRON FROM IRON ORE | O'KEEFE, SEAN P | — |
| 18571210 | HYDROGEN GAS RECYCLING IN A DIRECT REDUCTION PROCESS | POLLOCK, AUSTIN M | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1738 | 3 |
| 1733 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18575896 | IRON BRIQUETTES | SHAMS, NAZMUN NAHAR | 1738 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 02, 2024 |
| 18571212 | PROCESS AND A SYSTEM FOR THE PRODUCTION OF SPONGE IRON FROM IRON ORE | O'KEEFE, SEAN P | 1738 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 16, 2023 |
| 18571210 | HYDROGEN GAS RECYCLING IN A DIRECT REDUCTION PROCESS | POLLOCK, AUSTIN M | 1738 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 15, 2023 |
| 18273359 | BLEED-OFF GAS RECOVERY IN A DIRECT REDUCTION PROCESS | SMOOT, MORIAH SIMONE MCMIL | 1733 | §102 | Final Rejection | 71d | Pending | Jul 20, 2023 |
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