Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
5 pending office actions • 1 art units • 5 examiners • 0 of 5 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 3 patents granted in the last 365 days
Industrie De Nora S.p.A. currently faces 5 pending office actions within the Chemistry & Materials technology area. These 5 actions are distributed among 5 distinct examiners, which suggests a variety of individual examiner interactions. Interestingly, all 5 pending office actions are housed within 1 distinct art unit, indicating a very narrow technical focus despite the number of examiners involved. This concentration within a single art unit suggests that the company's current filings are technically similar or fall within a very specific sub-specialty of chemistry.
BASS, DIRK R is identified as the busiest examiner for the company, with 1 pending office action under their review. Because there are 5 pending office actions and 5 distinct examiners, each examiner is responsible for exactly 1 pending office action. This high ratio of examiners to a single art unit for 5 pending actions is a notable feature of the company's current prosecution landscape. For a practitioner, this environment requires managing relationships with 5 different examiners who are all working within the same technical unit, potentially leading to different interpretations of similar subject matter.
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 | 3 (60%) |
| §112 only | 1 (20%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 1 (20%) |
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 | 1 | 62.4% | +22.8% |
| SMITH, NICHOLAS A | 1 | 63.5% | +31.7% |
| CHEN, BRET P | 1 | 84.5% | +16.4% |
| KEELING, ALEXANDER W | 1 | 55.9% | +38.1% |
| JEBUTU, MOFOLUWASO SIMILOLUWA | 1 | 34.8% | +40.3% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18550698 | ELECTRODE FOR GAS EVOLUTION IN ELECTROLYTIC PROCESSES | CHEN, BRET P | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18022374 | ELECTRODE WITH ENHANCED SHUTDOWN TOLERANCE | KEELING, ALEXANDER W | 79d overdue |
| 18697637 | ELECTRODE FOR HYPOCHLORITE EVOLUTION | BASS, DIRK R | — |
| 18574593 | ELECTRODE FOR THE ELECTROLYTIC EVOLUTION OF HYDROGEN | SMITH, NICHOLAS A | — |
| 18550698 | ELECTRODE FOR GAS EVOLUTION IN ELECTROLYTIC PROCESSES | CHEN, BRET P | — |
| 17292885 | ELECTRODE FOR ELECTROLYTIC EVOLUTION OF GAS | JEBUTU, MOFOLUWASO SIMILOLUWA | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1795 | 3 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18697637 | ELECTRODE FOR HYPOCHLORITE EVOLUTION | BASS, DIRK R | — | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 01, 2024 |
| 18574593 | ELECTRODE FOR THE ELECTROLYTIC EVOLUTION OF HYDROGEN | SMITH, NICHOLAS A | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 27, 2023 |
| 18550698 | ELECTRODE FOR GAS EVOLUTION IN ELECTROLYTIC PROCESSES | CHEN, BRET P | 1795 | §112DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 15, 2023 |
| 18022374 | ELECTRODE WITH ENHANCED SHUTDOWN TOLERANCE | KEELING, ALEXANDER W | 1795 | §103 | Final Rejection | 79d overdue | Pending | Feb 21, 2023 |
| 17292885 | ELECTRODE FOR ELECTROLYTIC EVOLUTION OF GAS | JEBUTU, MOFOLUWASO SIMILOLUWA | 1795 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | May 11, 2021 |
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