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
Kensol Automist LLC is currently managing 1 pending office action within the Chemistry & Materials technology area. This action is assigned to examiner BERGNER, ERIN FLANAGAN, who is listed as the busiest examiner with 1 pending matter. The prosecution is confined to a distinct art unit, showing a focused technical scope for the current filing.
The presence of a distinct examiner means that the company's entire pending portfolio is under the review of an individual. This creates a streamlined communication path within the art unit involved. For the practitioner, this concentration in Chemistry & Materials allows for a highly specialized response strategy tailored to the specific expectations of the examiner assigned to the case.
The workload is at its most consolidated state. The administrative footprint for Kensol Automist LLC is limited to the current filings. This focus simplifies the management of deadlines and examiner interactions for the pending application. Practitioners can leverage this lack of complexity to ensure a consistent technical narrative across the 1 pending office action.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| BERGNER, ERIN FLANAGAN | 1 | 76.5% | +30.6% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18675747 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR REMOVING GREASE FROM A RANGE HOOD SYSTEM | BERGNER, ERIN FLANAGAN | 12d |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18675747 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR REMOVING GREASE FROM A RANGE HOOD SYSTEM | BERGNER, ERIN FLANAGAN | 12d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1713 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18675747 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR REMOVING GREASE FROM A RANGE HOOD SYSTEM | BERGNER, ERIN FLANAGAN | 1713 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | 12d | Pending | May 28, 2024 |
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