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 • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Kratos LLC has 1 pending office action in the Chemistry & Materials technology area. This filing is located within 1 distinct art unit, reflecting a specific technical focus for the company's current application. The concentration in a single art unit suggests that the company's innovation is classified within a specific chemical category. For the company, this concentration allows for a deep understanding of the specific requirements and precedents of the assigned unit.
The portfolio involves a distinct examiner. MURATA, AUSTIN is the busiest examiner for the company, currently managing the pending office action. This individual handles all of the company's current prosecution activity. For the company, this means that all active interactions with the patent office in the Chemistry & Materials area are handled by a single person. This one-on-one interaction can lead to a more focused dialogue between the applicant and the examiner, potentially streamlining the path toward a final resolution on 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 |
|---|---|
| §112 only | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| MURATA, AUSTIN | 1 | 60.8% | +21.3% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18744310 | GROUP IVA FUNCTIONALIZED PARTICLES AND METHODS OF USE THEREOF | MURATA, AUSTIN | 12d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1712 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18744310 | GROUP IVA FUNCTIONALIZED PARTICLES AND METHODS OF USE THEREOF | MURATA, AUSTIN | 1712 | §112Other | Final Rejection | 12d | Pending | Jun 14, 2024 |
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Start Free TrialKratos LLC has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Austin Murata has the most, with 1 of Kratos LLC's pending office actions.
Mostly Chemistry & Materials (USPTO Tech Center 1700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.