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
Industrial Steel Construction Inc. holds a company patent portfolio focused on the Chemistry & Materials technology area. Currently, the portfolio has 1 pending office action assigned to a distinct examiner. GAMINO, CARLOS J is identified as the busiest examiner for the company, holding the 1 pending office action currently active.
The portfolio's activity is concentrated in 1 distinct art unit, which aligns with the specialized nature of chemistry and materials in construction. With a distinct examiner involved, the company's prosecution efforts are focused on a single point of review. The pending office action represents the full extent of the company's current pending matters at the patent office.
Practitioners should tailor their strategy to the specific tendencies of GAMINO, CARLOS J within the 1 distinct art unit. Because there are no other pending actions, the success of the pending office action is critical for the portfolio's immediate development. The focused nature of this portfolio, with a distinct examiner and art unit, allows for a specific and targeted legal approach.
The busiest examiner pending count of 1 confirms that the company's immediate patent goals are tied to a single review process. Reviewing the examiner's history within the Chemistry & Materials space can help anticipate potential hurdles. Monitoring the status of the pending office action is vital for timely adjustments to the broader intellectual property strategy.
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 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| GAMINO, CARLOS J | 1 | 35.3% | +45.6% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18607039 | SWING ARM WELDING SYSTEM | GAMINO, CARLOS J | 19d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1735 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18607039 | SWING ARM WELDING SYSTEM | GAMINO, CARLOS J | 1735 | §103 | Final Rejection | 19d | Pending | Mar 15, 2024 |
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