Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
5 pending office actions • 3 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 5 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Ide Water Technologies Ltd. currently manages 5 pending office actions within the Chemistry & Materials technology area. These actions are distributed across 3 distinct examiners and 3 distinct art units. This distribution indicates that while the company's patent activity is concentrated in Chemistry & Materials, it involves multiple technical sub-fields and different review perspectives from the assigned examiners. The presence of multiple art units suggests a diverse range of chemical or material innovations within the portfolio.
The busiest examiner for the portfolio is BASS, DIRK R, who is responsible for 3 busiest examiner pending actions. This means BASS, DIRK R handles 3 of the 5 pending office actions, making this examiner's trends particularly important for the company's overall success. With the workload spread across multiple units, the prosecution strategy must account for both the centralized workload under BASS, DIRK R and the specific requirements of the other examiners managing the remaining actions. Practitioners should analyze the specific feedback from each of the 3 distinct examiners to ensure a cohesive approach.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 2 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 (20%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 4 (80%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| BASS, DIRK R | 3 | 62.4% | +22.8% |
| GONZALEZ, MADELINE | 1 | 72.6% | +15.7% |
| MCDERMOTT, JEANNIE | 1 | 59.8% | +15.7% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 4 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17797415 | FORWARD OSMOTIC SEPARATION SYSTEM AND METHOD | MCDERMOTT, JEANNIE | 44d overdue |
| 18409448 | REVERSE OSMOSIS OR NANOFILTRATION PROCESS FOR CLEANING WATER | BASS, DIRK R | — |
| 18408500 | IMPROVED REVERSE OSMOSIS OR NANOFILTRATION PROCESS FOR CLEANING WATER | BASS, DIRK R | — |
| 18558023 | RENEWABLE ENERGY SOURCE USING PRESSURE DRIVEN FILTRATION PROCESSES AND SYSTEMS | GONZALEZ, MADELINE | — |
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 5 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17797415 | FORWARD OSMOTIC SEPARATION SYSTEM AND METHOD | MCDERMOTT, JEANNIE | 44d overdue |
| 18477542 | Reverse osmosis or nanofiltration process for cleaning water | BASS, DIRK R | 83d |
| 18409448 | REVERSE OSMOSIS OR NANOFILTRATION PROCESS FOR CLEANING WATER | BASS, DIRK R | — |
| 18408500 | IMPROVED REVERSE OSMOSIS OR NANOFILTRATION PROCESS FOR CLEANING WATER | BASS, DIRK R | — |
| 18558023 | RENEWABLE ENERGY SOURCE USING PRESSURE DRIVEN FILTRATION PROCESSES AND SYSTEMS | GONZALEZ, MADELINE | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1779 | 3 |
| 1773 | 1 |
| 1777 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18409448 | REVERSE OSMOSIS OR NANOFILTRATION PROCESS FOR CLEANING WATER | BASS, DIRK R | 1779 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 10, 2024 |
| 18408500 | IMPROVED REVERSE OSMOSIS OR NANOFILTRATION PROCESS FOR CLEANING WATER | BASS, DIRK R | 1779 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jan 09, 2024 |
| 18558023 | RENEWABLE ENERGY SOURCE USING PRESSURE DRIVEN FILTRATION PROCESSES AND SYSTEMS | GONZALEZ, MADELINE | 1773 | §102§103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Oct 30, 2023 |
| 18477542 | Reverse osmosis or nanofiltration process for cleaning water | BASS, DIRK R | 1779 | §103Other | Final Rejection | 83d | Pending | Sep 28, 2023 |
| 17797415 | FORWARD OSMOTIC SEPARATION SYSTEM AND METHOD | MCDERMOTT, JEANNIE | 1777 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 44d overdue | Pending | Aug 03, 2022 |
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