Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals • Chemistry & Materials
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
International Frontier Technology Laboratory Inc. currently has 2 pending office actions in the Chemistry & Materials technology area. These actions are distributed across distinct examiners, meaning each examiner is responsible for one active application. The workload is also split between 2 distinct art units, which suggests that the company's chemistry-related innovations span different technical sub-specialties. The busiest examiner for the company is MCKENZIE, THOMAS B, who is handling 1 busiest examiner pending action.
With 2 distinct art units involved, the company must manage separate prosecution tracks simultaneously. This distribution requires the applicant to address the specific requirements of different examiners across different organizational divisions within the Chemistry & Materials sector. The 1 busiest examiner pending action assigned to MCKENZIE, THOMAS B represents half of the 2 pending office actions total. This structure requires a strategy that balances individual examiner preferences with the unified standards of the company's research goals.
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 | 1 (50%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (50%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| MCKENZIE, THOMAS B | 1 | 57.3% | +22.6% |
| MARTIN, PAUL C | 1 | 41.8% | +21.6% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18577760 | AIR PURIFIER AND PURIFICATION BOOTH FOR PREVENTING INFECTION | MCKENZIE, THOMAS B | 31d 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 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18577760 | AIR PURIFIER AND PURIFICATION BOOTH FOR PREVENTING INFECTION | MCKENZIE, THOMAS B | 31d overdue |
| 17640657 | Composition Comprising Thermosensitive Gel and Oligopeptide, and Use Thereof | MARTIN, PAUL C | 54d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1776 | 1 |
| 1653 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18577760 | AIR PURIFIER AND PURIFICATION BOOTH FOR PREVENTING INFECTION | MCKENZIE, THOMAS B | 1776 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | 31d overdue | Pending | Jan 09, 2024 |
| 17640657 | Composition Comprising Thermosensitive Gel and Oligopeptide, and Use Thereof | MARTIN, PAUL C | 1653 | §103 | Final Rejection | 54d | Pending | Sep 30, 2022 |
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