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 • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Independence Oilfield Chemicals LLC has 1 pending office action in the Chemistry & Materials technology area. This matter is assigned to a distinct examiner, HINES, LATOSHA D, who is the busiest examiner with 1 pending office action. The prosecution is within 1 distinct art unit.
The 1 pending office action is the only current activity for the portfolio in the Chemistry & Materials area. With a distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit, the prosecution is concentrated. This requires the practitioner to focus on the specific examination style of HINES, LATOSHA D. The interaction is localized within a single art unit, which may provide a consistent procedural environment for this filing.
The current data reflects a narrow prosecution footprint. Future applications in Chemistry & Materials may diversify the examiners involved, but the present focus remains on the single action under HINES, LATOSHA D.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| HINES, LATOSHA D | 1 | 51.2% | +21.7% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18947595 | WAX TREATMENT AND METHOD OF USE | HINES, LATOSHA D | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1771 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18947595 | WAX TREATMENT AND METHOD OF USE | HINES, LATOSHA D | 1771 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 14, 2024 |
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