Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
3 pending office actions • 2 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Hyperform Inc. maintains a patent portfolio focused on the Chemistry & Materials technology area. There are currently 3 pending office actions associated with this company. These actions are spread across 2 distinct art units, which suggests the intellectual property covers multiple technical niches within the broader chemistry field. For a practitioner, this distribution requires monitoring developments in more than one specialized division of the patent office.
The prosecution involves 3 distinct examiners, matching the total count of 3 pending office actions. GRUSBY, REBECCA LYNN is the busiest examiner for this portfolio. This examiner is currently overseeing 1 pending office action. Because the busiest examiner holds 1 action, the workload is evenly distributed among the 3 distinct examiners involved in the company's current filings.
The presence of 2 distinct art units implies that the pending office actions may face different examination standards based on their specific unit assignments. GRUSBY, REBECCA LYNN manages a portion of the total pending actions. This lack of concentration among the 3 distinct examiners suggests that no single examiner's personal tendencies will dominate the outcome of the current portfolio prosecution.
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 (33%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (67%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| GRUSBY, REBECCA LYNN | 1 | 32.3% | +41.8% |
| SHABMAN, MARK A | 1 | 84.2% | +13.4% |
| GOLDEN, CHINESSA T | 1 | 57.9% | +4.8% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19037912 | WALLCOVERING PANEL | GRUSBY, REBECCA LYNN | — |
| 18791942 | PORTABLE TENSILE STRENGTH TESTER | SHABMAN, MARK A | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19037912 | WALLCOVERING PANEL | GRUSBY, REBECCA LYNN | — |
| 18791942 | PORTABLE TENSILE STRENGTH TESTER | SHABMAN, MARK A | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1785 | 1 |
| 1788 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19037912 | WALLCOVERING PANEL | GRUSBY, REBECCA LYNN | 1785 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jan 27, 2025 |
| 18791942 | PORTABLE TENSILE STRENGTH TESTER | SHABMAN, MARK A | — | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 01, 2024 |
| 18639368 | COVER WITH PULL-THROUGH PREVENTION ARRANGEMENT | GOLDEN, CHINESSA T | 1788 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 70d | Pending | Apr 18, 2024 |
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