Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
2 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Kx Technologies LLC is currently managing 3 pending office actions within the Chemistry & Materials technology area. These active matters are distributed across 2 distinct art units, indicating that the company's intellectual property spans multiple specialized technical classifications. The prosecution workload involves 2 distinct examiners, which requires the company to adapt to different examining styles within the same technology sector.
The busiest examiner for the portfolio is KURTZ, BENJAMIN M, who is responsible for 2 pending office actions. This concentration means that 2 of the company's 3 pending actions are under the review of a specific individual. Practitioners should note that the outcomes of these cases will significantly impact the overall success rate of the current portfolio.
The presence of 2 distinct art units suggests that while the technology is centered in Chemistry & Materials, the specific applications are diverse enough to trigger different administrative paths. Managing the workload with 2 distinct examiners allows for some consistency in communication, particularly with the busiest examiner handling most of the load.
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 |
|---|---|
| §101 + other | 1 (50%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| KURTZ, BENJAMIN M | 2 | 56.8% | +17.6% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18790307 | FILTER HOUSING WITH FILTER KEY ATTACHMENT | KURTZ, BENJAMIN M | — |
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 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18385580 | PUSH FILTER WITH FLOATING KEY LOCK | KURTZ, BENJAMIN M | 61d |
| 18790307 | FILTER HOUSING WITH FILTER KEY ATTACHMENT | KURTZ, BENJAMIN M | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1779 | 2 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18790307 | FILTER HOUSING WITH FILTER KEY ATTACHMENT | KURTZ, BENJAMIN M | 1779 | §101§102DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 31, 2024 |
| 18385580 | PUSH FILTER WITH FLOATING KEY LOCK | KURTZ, BENJAMIN M | 1779 | DPOther | Final Rejection | 61d | Pending | Oct 31, 2023 |
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