Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
3 pending office actions • 1 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Innospec Fuel Specialties LLC is active in the Chemistry & Materials technology area with 3 pending office actions. These actions are assigned to 2 distinct examiners. This indicates a focused prosecution strategy with limited examiner variety.
The company's current activity is confined to 1 distinct art unit. TOOMER, CEPHIA D is the busiest examiner, holding 2 busiest examiner pending actions. This examiner is responsible for the majority of the 3 pending office actions currently facing the company.
Because all activity is within 1 distinct art unit, the prosecution environment is highly specialized. The fact that 2 busiest examiner pending actions are with TOOMER, CEPHIA D means that this individual's approach to Chemistry & Materials applications will be the primary factor in resolving the current 3 pending office actions. Practitioners should prepare for consistent feedback given the limited number of 2 distinct examiners involved.
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 | 3 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| TOOMER, CEPHIA D | 2 | 74.4% | +2.5% |
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18440037 | COMPOSITIONS, METHODS AND USES | HINES, LATOSHA D | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1771 | 3 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18849862 | COMPOSITIONS, METHODS AND USES | TOOMER, CEPHIA D | 1771 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 21d | Pending | Sep 23, 2024 |
| 18440037 | COMPOSITIONS, METHODS AND USES | HINES, LATOSHA D | 1771 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 13, 2024 |
| 18389414 | COMPOSITIONS, METHODS AND USES | TOOMER, CEPHIA D | 1771 | §103 | Final Rejection | 40d | Pending | Nov 14, 2023 |
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