Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Chemistry & Materials • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Indeeco LLC manages a company patent portfolio focused on the Chemistry & Materials technology area. There are currently 2 pending office actions active within the portfolio. These actions are being examined across 2 distinct art units, which points to a technical breadth that requires oversight from different specialized divisions within the patent office. This distribution suggests that the company's chemistry-related filings are not limited to a single narrow sub-field.
The data shows that 2 distinct examiners are involved in reviewing these applications. TALBERT, ERIC MICHAEL is the busiest examiner listed for the portfolio, holding 1 busiest examiner pending office action. Since there are 2 pending office actions in total, the workload is shared among the 2 distinct examiners. For the practitioner, this means that the 2 pending office actions represent separate points of contact at the patent office. The involvement of 2 distinct examiners and 2 distinct art units indicates a diversified prosecution environment for Indeeco LLC.
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 | 2 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| TALBERT, ERIC MICHAEL | 1 | 22.0% | +57.3% |
| LEE JR, WOODY A | 1 | 84.6% | +12.9% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17864692 | IMPEDANCE HEATED CONTINUOUS EMISSION MONITORING SYSTEM | LEE JR, WOODY A | 29d overdue |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18085221 | STEAM BOOST SYSTEM FOR A STEAM STERILIZER | TALBERT, ERIC MICHAEL | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17864692 | IMPEDANCE HEATED CONTINUOUS EMISSION MONITORING SYSTEM | LEE JR, WOODY A | 29d overdue |
| 18085221 | STEAM BOOST SYSTEM FOR A STEAM STERILIZER | TALBERT, ERIC MICHAEL | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1758 | 1 |
| 3761 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18085221 | STEAM BOOST SYSTEM FOR A STEAM STERILIZER | TALBERT, ERIC MICHAEL | 1758 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 20, 2022 |
| 17864692 | IMPEDANCE HEATED CONTINUOUS EMISSION MONITORING SYSTEM | LEE JR, WOODY A | 3761 | §103 | Final Rejection | 29d overdue | Pending | Jul 14, 2022 |
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