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
Jan Mróz is currently managing its patent interests within the Chemistry & Materials technology area. The company has 1 pending office action that requires attention. This specific matter is assigned to 1 distinct examiner, MCGUTHRY BANKS, TIMA MICHELE, who handles the entirety of the active workload. The prosecution is concentrated within 1 distinct art unit, showing the administrative path for the current filings.
MCGUTHRY BANKS, TIMA MICHELE is identified as the busiest examiner for this portfolio, currently overseeing 1 pending office action. This level of concentration means that the company's legal strategy is tied to the specific examination tendencies of a single individual. There are no other examiners or art units currently involved in the company's pending matters. The focus within the Chemistry & Materials sector suggests the technical scope for the current filings.
For a practitioner, this data highlights a prosecution environment with a single point of contact. The outcome of the active office action will define the immediate success of the portfolio. Because only 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit are involved, there is no need to navigate varying procedural styles or conflicting interpretations of patent law. The focus remains entirely on the interaction with MCGUTHRY BANKS, TIMA MICHELE.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| MCGUTHRY BANKS, TIMA MICHELE | 1 | 81.8% | +2.5% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18271445 | METHOD OF STEEL SMELTING DIRECTLY FROM IRON ORE | MCGUTHRY BANKS, TIMA MICHELE | 17d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1733 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18271445 | METHOD OF STEEL SMELTING DIRECTLY FROM IRON ORE | MCGUTHRY BANKS, TIMA MICHELE | 1733 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | 17d overdue | Pending | Jul 08, 2023 |
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