Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
2 pending office actions • 1 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Jupiter Research LLC maintains a company patent portfolio in the Chemistry & Materials technology area. There are 3 pending office actions currently active. These 3 actions are distributed among the distinct examiners, showing that the patent office has assigned different individuals to each matter.
All prosecution activity is contained within 1 distinct art unit. FULTON, MICHAEL TIMOTHY is the busiest examiner, holding 1 busiest examiner pending office action. The involvement of 3 distinct examiners within the art unit indicates that while the technical field is narrow, multiple individuals are reviewing the company's chemistry-related filings.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FULTON, MICHAEL TIMOTHY | 1 | 70.4% | +5.9% |
| KESSIE, JENNIFER A | 1 | 64.9% | +20.3% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17496336 | CERAMIC VAPE ASSEMBLY | KESSIE, JENNIFER A | 395d 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 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17496336 | CERAMIC VAPE ASSEMBLY | KESSIE, JENNIFER A | 395d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1747 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18639635 | CARTRIDGE WITH VENTURI FLOW PATH | FULTON, MICHAEL TIMOTHY | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 18, 2024 |
| 17496336 | CERAMIC VAPE ASSEMBLY | KESSIE, JENNIFER A | 1747 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | 395d overdue | Pending | Oct 07, 2021 |
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