Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Chemistry & Materials • Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Inx International Ink Co. has 2 pending office actions focused in the Chemistry & Materials sector. These matters are split between distinct art units and distinct examiners, with 2 being the count for each category. This distribution suggests that the company's intellectual property strategy involves diverse technical sub-specialties within the broader chemistry field. This requires the applicant to navigate different examiner styles and art unit standards simultaneously, which can complicate the development of a uniform prosecution strategy across the portfolio.
BARZACH, JEFFREY EUGENE serves as the busiest examiner for the portfolio with 1 pending office action under review. Because the busiest examiner is only handling a single matter, the applicant does not face a significant concentration of risk with any one individual at the patent office. The presence of multiple distinct examiners means that the company must remain adaptable to varying interpretations of patentability within the Chemistry & Materials technology area. Practitioners should prepare for a decentralized prosecution process where each office action may require a unique tactical approach tailored to the specific examiner and art unit involved, as the workload is currently split such that the busiest examiner has only 1 matter.
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 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| BARZACH, JEFFREY EUGENE | 1 | 57.1% | +40.6% |
| ZIMMERMAN, JOSHUA D | 1 | 40.9% | +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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18169036 | ENERGY CURABLE INKJET INKS FOR CONTAINER DECORATION | BARZACH, JEFFREY EUGENE | 58d 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18169036 | ENERGY CURABLE INKJET INKS FOR CONTAINER DECORATION | BARZACH, JEFFREY EUGENE | 58d overdue |
| 17350834 | CAUSTIC WASHABLE COMPOSITIONS FOR PRINTING | ZIMMERMAN, JOSHUA D | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1731 | 1 |
| 2853 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18169036 | ENERGY CURABLE INKJET INKS FOR CONTAINER DECORATION | BARZACH, JEFFREY EUGENE | 1731 | §102§112 | Final Rejection | 58d overdue | Pending | Feb 14, 2023 |
| 17350834 | CAUSTIC WASHABLE COMPOSITIONS FOR PRINTING | ZIMMERMAN, JOSHUA D | 2853 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 17, 2021 |
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