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
Ivy Capture Inc. is currently managing 1 pending office action in the Chemistry & Materials technology area. This active matter is assigned to 1 distinct examiner and is located within 1 distinct art unit. This structure indicates a highly focused prosecution path for the company's current intellectual property, with no diversification across different examiners or technical departments.
The busiest examiner for the portfolio is LAWRENCE JR, FRANK M, who holds the 1 pending office action. With only 1 distinct examiner involved, the company's current interactions with the patent office are limited to a single point of evaluation. This concentration means that the company's immediate patenting goals are entirely dependent on the specific review and feedback provided by LAWRENCE JR, FRANK M.
The presence of 1 distinct art unit further emphasizes the localized nature of the company's current prosecution. While this reduces the complexity of managing multiple filings, it also means the company is not currently navigating the varied procedural norms of different art units. Practitioners should focus on the specific requirements of the assigned examiner to move the pending office action toward a successful conclusion.
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 |
|---|---|
| §101 + other | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| LAWRENCE JR, FRANK M | 1 | 83.9% | +19.8% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18882499 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SUBSTANCE REMOVAL | LAWRENCE JR, FRANK M | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18882499 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SUBSTANCE REMOVAL | LAWRENCE JR, FRANK M | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1776 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18882499 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SUBSTANCE REMOVAL | LAWRENCE JR, FRANK M | 1776 | §101§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 11, 2024 |
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