Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
2 pending office actions • 1 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Log10 B V currently manages 2 pending office actions in the Chemistry & Materials technology area. Both actions are assigned to 1 distinct art unit, indicating a focused technical scope for the company's active matters. The prosecution is split between 2 distinct examiners. This focus within a single art unit suggests that the company's current intellectual property efforts are concentrated on a specific area of chemistry.
CHANGRU CHEN is the busiest examiner for the portfolio, currently handling 1 pending office action. Since the 2 pending actions are distributed among 2 distinct examiners, the company is receiving feedback from two different sources. This necessitates a strategy that addresses the individual preferences of each examiner. Practitioners should monitor the progress of both matters, as the 2 distinct examiners may provide different insights into the 1 distinct art unit's current examination trends.
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 (50%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (50%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| CHEN, CHANGRU | 1 | 48.1% | +41.4% |
| SARANTAKOS, KAYLA ROSE | 1 | 35.6% | +52.0% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18811298 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR REPROCESSING REUSABLE MEDICAL INSTRUMENTS | CHEN, CHANGRU | — |
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 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17910636 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR STERILIZING MEDICAL INSTRUMENTS | SARANTAKOS, KAYLA ROSE | 8d overdue |
| 18811298 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR REPROCESSING REUSABLE MEDICAL INSTRUMENTS | CHEN, CHANGRU | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1799 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18811298 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR REPROCESSING REUSABLE MEDICAL INSTRUMENTS | CHEN, CHANGRU | — | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 21, 2024 |
| 17910636 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR STERILIZING MEDICAL INSTRUMENTS | SARANTAKOS, KAYLA ROSE | 1799 | §103 | Final Rejection | 8d overdue | Pending | Sep 09, 2022 |
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