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
The Li&Co AG portfolio is active in the Chemistry & Materials technology area. Current prosecution metrics reveal a streamlined profile with 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit. This structure reflects a specific approach to patent acquisition within the chemistry sector.
IMANI, ELIZABETH MARY COLE serves as the busiest examiner for this portfolio. There is currently 1 busiest examiner pending office action assigned to this individual. This figure matches the total of 1 pending office actions currently active for the portfolio.
The presence of 1 distinct art unit implies that the technical subject matter has not triggered review by multiple groups. With only 1 distinct examiner to interface with, the prosecution strategy is centralized. Resolving the 1 pending office action is the priority for maintaining the trajectory of these Chemistry & Materials filings. The fact that an individual examiner manages the workload suggests a unified review process for the outstanding matter.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| IMANI, ELIZABETH MARY COLE | 1 | 33.5% | +25.0% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17785257 | Panel for Constructing a Floor or Wall Covering | IMANI, ELIZABETH MARY COLE | 5d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1789 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17785257 | Panel for Constructing a Floor or Wall Covering | IMANI, ELIZABETH MARY COLE | 1789 | §103 | Final Rejection | 5d overdue | Pending | Jun 14, 2022 |
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