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
Institute Of Process Engineering Cas has 1 pending office action in the Chemistry & Materials technology area. This action is being reviewed by 1 distinct examiner, STILES, JACOB BENJAMIN. As the busiest examiner, STILES, JACOB BENJAMIN holds 1 pending office action, which is the only active action for the company.
The portfolio is currently localized within 1 distinct art unit, indicating a specific technical focus in process engineering or materials. With 1 pending office action, the prosecution footprint is minimal and highly concentrated. The fact that 1 distinct examiner is handling the only active action means that the applicant's immediate success depends on the interaction with STILES, JACOB BENJAMIN.
This concentration in 1 art unit allows for a focused legal approach without the need to navigate different examination standards. Practitioners should note that the outcome of this single office action will define the immediate success rate for the portfolio. The alignment of the examiner and art unit allows the legal team to focus exclusively on the specific preferences of the assigned individual.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| STILES, JACOB BENJAMIN | 1 | 0.0% | +0.0% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18492042 | USE OF ORGANIC ACID-CONTAINING LEACHING AGENT IN LEACHING FROM ION-ADSORPTION TYPE RARE EARTH ORE AND METHOD FOR LEACHING FULL-PHASE RARE EARTH | STILES, JACOB BENJAMIN | 6d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1733 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18492042 | USE OF ORGANIC ACID-CONTAINING LEACHING AGENT IN LEACHING FROM ION-ADSORPTION TYPE RARE EARTH ORE AND METHOD FOR LEACHING FULL-PHASE RARE EARTH | STILES, JACOB BENJAMIN | 1733 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 6d | Pending | Oct 23, 2023 |
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