Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
2 pending office actions • 1 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 57 patents granted in the last 365 days
Lego A/s currently manages 2 pending office actions within the Chemistry & Materials technology area. These actions are being reviewed by 2 distinct examiners, ensuring that the company's applications are not all subject to the same individual's interpretation. Both pending actions are situated within 1 distinct art unit, indicating a concentrated technical focus for these specific filings.
WALTER, AUDREY BRADLEY is the busiest examiner for the portfolio, holding 1 busiest examiner pending office action. Given that there are 2 pending office actions in total, the workload is split evenly between the 2 distinct examiners. This concentration in 1 distinct art unit may allow for a more consistent prosecution strategy despite the involvement of different examiners.
For the practitioner, the presence of the single art unit suggests that the USPTO's internal classification for these Chemistry & Materials applications is uniform. However, the use of 2 distinct examiners means that the company must still address two different sets of examiner preferences. The 2 pending office actions represent the current active front for the company's patent efforts.
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 (50%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| WALTER, AUDREY BRADLEY | 1 | 80.9% | +23.9% |
| MELENDEZ, ARMAND | 1 | 46.2% | +43.1% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18857666 | MODULAR TOY | WALTER, AUDREY BRADLEY | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17781953 | A MOLD TOOL FOR INJECTION MOLDING | MELENDEZ, ARMAND | 57d |
| 18857666 | MODULAR TOY | WALTER, AUDREY BRADLEY | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1759 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18857666 | MODULAR TOY | WALTER, AUDREY BRADLEY | — | §102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 17, 2024 |
| 17781953 | A MOLD TOOL FOR INJECTION MOLDING | MELENDEZ, ARMAND | 1759 | §103 | Final Rejection | 57d | Pending | Jun 02, 2022 |
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