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
Krill Design Srl has 1 pending office action in the Chemistry & Materials technology area. This matter is assigned to 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit. POLLEY, CHRISTOPHER M is the busiest examiner, currently reviewing the pending matter.
The involvement of only 1 distinct examiner and 1 art unit indicates a narrow prosecution window. This 1 pending action allows the company to focus its resources on a single point of review at the USPTO. For a practitioner, this means that the technical arguments can be highly specialized to meet the standards of the assigned official without the need to reconcile conflicting feedback from multiple units.
In the Chemistry & Materials sector, maintaining a unified prosecution record is essential for long-term success. Since the company is only dealing with a distinct examiner, the risk of inconsistent claim interpretations is minimized. This centralized review process allows the applicant to focus resources on the specific requirements and examination style of the assigned official, ensuring a more predictable path toward securing patent protection for the 1 pending 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 |
|---|---|
| §103 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| POLLEY, CHRISTOPHER M | 1 | 72.9% | +26.4% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18561818 | FILLER FOR POLYMERIC COMPOSITIONS DERIVED FROM CITRUS PROCESSING AND/OR PRESSING WASTE | POLLEY, CHRISTOPHER M | 61d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1785 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18561818 | FILLER FOR POLYMERIC COMPOSITIONS DERIVED FROM CITRUS PROCESSING AND/OR PRESSING WASTE | POLLEY, CHRISTOPHER M | 1785 | §103 | Final Rejection | 61d | Pending | Nov 17, 2023 |
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