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
Kromer Company is actively prosecuting a patent portfolio in the Chemistry & Materials technology area. The portfolio's current activity is limited to 1 pending office action, which is being reviewed by 1 distinct examiner. This level of concentration suggests that the company's immediate patenting efforts are focused on a very specific set of claims or a single application. It allows the applicant to focus resources on one specific examiner interaction.
The prosecution is occurring within 1 distinct art unit, further highlighting the specialized nature of the current filings. AYALEW, TINSAE B is the busiest examiner associated with the portfolio, holding 1 busiest examiner pending action. This means that the pending office action is entirely under the jurisdiction of this one examiner. For the practitioner, the outcome of the Chemistry & Materials portfolio's current cycle depends on navigating the specific requirements of this examiner within the single identified art unit.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| AYALEW, TINSAE B | 1 | 75.8% | +9.1% |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1711 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18412969 | SYSTEM, METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR SYNTHETIC FIELD PAINT AND LINE REMOVAL WITH EDGER BRUSHES AND VACUUMING | AYALEW, TINSAE B | 1711 | §112 | Final Rejection | 31d overdue | Pending | Jan 15, 2024 |
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