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 • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Livent Usa Corp. currently manages 1 pending office action within the Chemistry & Materials technology area. The prosecution of this portfolio is concentrated under 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit, indicating a focused effort on a specific chemical or material science application. This level of concentration means the company's immediate patent outcomes are tied to the specific standards of 1 administrative group. This status indicates that the company is not currently navigating a high volume of simultaneous patent office inquiries.
The busiest examiner for the company is ROLDAN RAMOS, CHRISTIAN, who is responsible for 1 pending office action. As the only examiner currently handling an active action for the portfolio, ROLDAN RAMOS, CHRISTIAN's examination style is the primary factor in the company's current prosecution timeline. Practitioners should monitor the tendencies of this 1 distinct examiner within the Chemistry & Materials field to effectively address the current matter and secure the company's intellectual property. The involvement of 1 distinct art unit further streamlines the technical focus of the current prosecution.
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 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ROLDAN RAMOS, CHRISTIAN | 1 | 69.4% | +15.7% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18215941 | PRELITHIATED ANODES USING PRINTABLE LITHIUM COMPOSITIONS | ROLDAN RAMOS, CHRISTIAN | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1723 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18215941 | PRELITHIATED ANODES USING PRINTABLE LITHIUM COMPOSITIONS | ROLDAN RAMOS, CHRISTIAN | 1723 | DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 29, 2023 |
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