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 • 3 patents granted in the last 365 days
International Battery Metals Ltd. currently has 1 pending office action in the Chemistry & Materials technology area. This action is assigned to MCDERMOTT, JEANNIE, who is responsible for 1 busiest_examiner_pending action. This represents the current prosecution status for the company's pending matter.
The portfolio involves 1 distinct art unit for the 1 pending office action. With 1 distinct examiner handling the workload, the company maintains a point of contact within the Chemistry & Materials sector. This interaction allows for a focused effort on resolving the 1 pending office action currently active.
Navigating 1 pending office action within 1 distinct art unit means the company addresses the requirements of that specific group. The assignment of MCDERMOTT, JEANNIE as the 1 distinct examiner for the 1 pending action defines the prosecution strategy. This arrangement is the current state for the company's application in the Chemistry & Materials field.
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 |
|---|---|
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| MCDERMOTT, JEANNIE | 1 | 59.8% | +15.7% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18990146 | MODULAR EXTRACTION APPARATUS | MCDERMOTT, JEANNIE | 42d overdue |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18990146 | MODULAR EXTRACTION APPARATUS | MCDERMOTT, JEANNIE | 42d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1777 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18990146 | MODULAR EXTRACTION APPARATUS | MCDERMOTT, JEANNIE | 1777 | §102§112 | Final Rejection | 42d overdue | Pending | Dec 20, 2024 |
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