Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
4 pending office actions • 4 art units • 4 examiners • 0 of 4 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 2 patents granted in the last 365 days
Lowcarbon Co. Ltd. is managing 4 pending office actions within the Chemistry & Materials technology area. These actions are distributed across 4 distinct examiners and 4 distinct art units. This degree of dispersion indicates that the company's patent applications cover a range of technical sub-categories within the chemistry field, each requiring interaction with a different specialized unit. This diversity in the portfolio requires a multifaceted prosecution strategy to address the unique requirements of each art unit.
The busiest examiner for the portfolio is MAYES, MELVIN C, who is responsible for 1 pending office action. Because each of the pending actions is assigned to a different examiner, the workload is distributed across the distinct examiners. This requires the company to navigate unique examination styles across separate art units simultaneously. Practitioners must ensure that the arguments presented in each of the pending office actions are consistent, even as they are tailored to the specific technical focus of each distinct art unit. The outcome of the company's patenting efforts will depend on successfully managing these independent prosecution tracks. The company currently has 1 pending action with the busiest examiner.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 4 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.
Every pending office action with a known statutory deadline, placed on a days-until-due axis. Dots left of Today are overdue; the further right, the more runway. Cases that share a deadline window stack vertically. 4 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.
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 (25%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 3 (75%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| MAYES, MELVIN C | 1 | 34.1% | +5.2% |
| PEREZ, JELITZA M | 1 | 75.2% | +29.7% |
| GITMAN, GABRIEL E | 1 | 76.2% | +20.2% |
| BUI, DUNG H | 1 | 77.8% | +25.4% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18040582 | SYSTEM FOR CAPTURING CARBON DIOXIDE AND SULFUR OXIDES AND UTILIZING CARBON FOR SHIPS | PEREZ, JELITZA M | 149d overdue |
| 18040599 | LAND-BASED SYSTEM FOR CAPTURING CARBON DIOXIDE AND SULFUR OXIDE AND CONVERTING THEREOF INTO CARBON RESOURCE | GITMAN, GABRIEL E | 79d overdue |
| 18040846 | CATALYST FOR CAPTURE AND CONVERSION OF CARBON DIOXIDE | MAYES, MELVIN C | 35d overdue |
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 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18040582 | SYSTEM FOR CAPTURING CARBON DIOXIDE AND SULFUR OXIDES AND UTILIZING CARBON FOR SHIPS | PEREZ, JELITZA M | 149d overdue |
| 18040599 | LAND-BASED SYSTEM FOR CAPTURING CARBON DIOXIDE AND SULFUR OXIDE AND CONVERTING THEREOF INTO CARBON RESOURCE | GITMAN, GABRIEL E | 79d overdue |
| 18006515 | CASCADED APPARATUS FOR FORMING ARTIFICIAL FOREST | BUI, DUNG H | 72d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1759 | 1 |
| 1774 | 1 |
| 1772 | 1 |
| 1773 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18040846 | CATALYST FOR CAPTURE AND CONVERSION OF CARBON DIOXIDE | MAYES, MELVIN C | 1759 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | 35d overdue | Pending | Feb 07, 2023 |
| 18040582 | SYSTEM FOR CAPTURING CARBON DIOXIDE AND SULFUR OXIDES AND UTILIZING CARBON FOR SHIPS | PEREZ, JELITZA M | 1774 | §103§112Other | Final Rejection | 149d overdue | Pending | Feb 03, 2023 |
| 18040599 | LAND-BASED SYSTEM FOR CAPTURING CARBON DIOXIDE AND SULFUR OXIDE AND CONVERTING THEREOF INTO CARBON RESOURCE | GITMAN, GABRIEL E | 1772 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | 79d overdue | Pending | Feb 03, 2023 |
| 18006515 | CASCADED APPARATUS FOR FORMING ARTIFICIAL FOREST | BUI, DUNG H | 1773 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 72d overdue | Pending | Jan 23, 2023 |
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