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
Interplastic Corporation has 1 pending office action in the Chemistry & Materials technology area. The prosecution of this portfolio is currently limited to 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit, suggesting a very focused patent strategy at this stage. For a practitioner, this means that the prosecution strategy is entirely dependent on the interactions within this one specific art unit. All active matters are consolidated under a single point of contact, which reduces the complexity of managing the current intellectual property assets.
The busiest examiner for the company is BUTCHER, ROBERT T, who is managing 1 busiest examiner pending action. Since there is only 1 pending office action in the entire portfolio, BUTCHER, ROBERT T is responsible for all current active prosecution. This examiner's decisions will determine the immediate trajectory of the company's pending intellectual property. With 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit involved, the practitioner can focus on a singular relationship to navigate the pending requirements of the USPTO. This concentration minimizes the risk of inconsistent arguments being presented to different examiners within the same technology area.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| BUTCHER, ROBERT T | 1 | 71.1% | +17.0% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17504184 | UNSATURATED POLYESTER RESIN SYSTEM FOR CURED IN-PLACE PIPING | BUTCHER, ROBERT T | 44d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1764 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17504184 | UNSATURATED POLYESTER RESIN SYSTEM FOR CURED IN-PLACE PIPING | BUTCHER, ROBERT T | 1764 | §103Other | Non-Final OA | 44d overdue | Pending | Oct 18, 2021 |
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