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
Hypernatural Corp. is managing 1 pending office action in the Chemistry & Materials technology area. This case is assigned to a distinct examiner and is located within 1 distinct art unit. This structure represents a singular focus for the company's current patent prosecution efforts, with all active work consolidated under one examiner and one technical classification. Such a concentrated structure allows for a very specific legal strategy without the need to coordinate across different technical classifications or multiple examiner preferences.
EMMANUEL S LUK is the busiest examiner for the portfolio, responsible for 1 busiest examiner pending office action. As there is only a pending office action overall, this individual manages the company's entire active docket. Practitioners working with this portfolio face a streamlined environment where all current results depend on the interactions within the 1 distinct art unit and with this examiner. The outcome of this proceeding will define the company's immediate patent position in the Chemistry & Materials sector. This creates a direct line of communication for the company's current legal strategy.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| LUK, EMMANUEL S | 1 | 71.5% | +26.3% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18924332 | PRODUCTION OF FABRIC WITH ENHANCED THERMOREGULATION PROPERTIES | LUK, EMMANUEL S | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1744 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18924332 | PRODUCTION OF FABRIC WITH ENHANCED THERMOREGULATION PROPERTIES | LUK, EMMANUEL S | 1744 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 23, 2024 |
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