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
Lithium Harvest Aps maintains a concentrated patent portfolio within the Chemistry & Materials technology area. The current prosecution landscape for this company is defined by 1 pending office action. This single matter is handled by 1 distinct examiner, indicating that the company's immediate legal strategy is focused on a narrow point of contact within the patent office.
The portfolio is currently limited to 1 distinct art unit. ADAM ADRIEN GERMAIN is identified as the busiest examiner for the portfolio, with 1 busiest examiner pending office action. Because this examiner's pending count of 1 accounts for the total pending office actions for the company, the outcome of this specific interaction will determine the immediate success of the portfolio's current filings.
For a practitioner, this data suggests a streamlined prosecution environment. With only 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit involved, there is no internal variance in how the patent office is treating these Chemistry & Materials applications. The focus remains entirely on the specific requirements and preferences of ADAM ADRIEN GERMAIN.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| GERMAIN, ADAM ADRIEN | 1 | 33.3% | +4.9% |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1777 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17956228 | Water Processing Method and Unit | GERMAIN, ADAM ADRIEN | 1777 | §103 | Final Rejection | 7d | Pending | Sep 29, 2022 |
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