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
Lilac Solutions Inc. currently has 1 pending office action in the Chemistry & Materials technology area. This 1 pending office action is being handled by 1 distinct examiner, Clare M Perrin, within 1 distinct art unit. This indicates a very focused prosecution landscape where only one matter is currently active.
Clare M Perrin is the busiest examiner, responsible for 1 pending office action. This 1 pending office action represents the entire current workload for the company in the Chemistry & Materials area. With only 1 distinct art unit and 1 distinct examiner involved, the company's current interaction with the patent office is limited to a single point of contact. The company must address the feedback from this 1 distinct examiner to resolve its 1 pending office action. This concentrated activity allows the company to focus its resources on a single regulatory challenge within the Chemistry & Materials field.
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 |
|---|---|
| Double-patenting + other | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| PERRIN, CLARE M | 1 | 68.0% | +42.7% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18441779 | ION EXCHANGE DEVICES FOR LITHIUM EXTRACTION | PERRIN, CLARE M | 35d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1779 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18441779 | ION EXCHANGE DEVICES FOR LITHIUM EXTRACTION | PERRIN, CLARE M | 1779 | §102§103DP | Non-Final OA | 35d overdue | Pending | Feb 14, 2024 |
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