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
Jsw Afty Corporation currently manages 1 pending office action within the Chemistry & Materials technology area. This single matter is assigned to 1 distinct examiner working within 1 distinct art unit, indicating a concentrated prosecution footprint at this stage. The presence of only 1 distinct art unit suggests the current intellectual property focus is narrow within its technological field. The alignment of 1 pending office action with 1 distinct examiner allows for a direct and singular prosecution strategy.
The busiest examiner for the portfolio is BAND, MICHAEL A, who is responsible for 1 busiest examiner pending office action. Because the total pending office actions and the busiest examiner pending count are both 1, this individual examiner handles the entirety of the company's current workload before the office. Practitioners can focus their strategy on the specific tendencies of this single examiner and art unit to resolve the outstanding action. This structure minimizes the complexity often found in larger portfolios where multiple examiners and art units must be coordinated. Having 1 pending office action means the company can dedicate all its resources to this specific examiner's requirements.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| BAND, MICHAEL A | 1 | 45.0% | +55.6% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19102189 | FILM FORMING APPARATUS AND FILM FORMING METHOD | BAND, MICHAEL A | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19102189 | FILM FORMING APPARATUS AND FILM FORMING METHOD | BAND, MICHAEL A | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1794 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19102189 | FILM FORMING APPARATUS AND FILM FORMING METHOD | BAND, MICHAEL A | 1794 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 07, 2025 |
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