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
Lightspeed Concepts Inc. currently manages a focused patent portfolio within the Chemistry & Materials technology area. The presence of 1 pending office action suggests a highly concentrated prosecution effort at this stage. Because the portfolio involves 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit, the company faces a narrow range of examination perspectives. This focus simplifies the administrative tracking of responses but also means the pending workload is subject to the specific tendencies of 1 individual.
The busiest examiner for the portfolio is KENNEDY, TIMOTHY J, who is responsible for the 1 busiest examiner pending office action. This individual accounts for the company's current interactions with the patent office. Since there is 1 distinct examiner across the portfolio, the prosecution strategy does not need to account for varying examiner behaviors or different art unit standards. Practitioners should focus on the specific prior art and procedural preferences of the 1 distinct examiner to resolve the 1 pending office action efficiently.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| KENNEDY, TIMOTHY J | 1 | 71.2% | +17.7% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18304716 | VOLUMETRIC BUILDER SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR BUILDING SAND CASTING MOLDS, CORES, AND TEMPORARY TOOLS | KENNEDY, TIMOTHY J | 42d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1743 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18304716 | VOLUMETRIC BUILDER SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR BUILDING SAND CASTING MOLDS, CORES, AND TEMPORARY TOOLS | KENNEDY, TIMOTHY J | 1743 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 42d | Pending | Apr 21, 2023 |
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