Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
3 pending office actions • 1 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 4 patents granted in the last 365 days
Lpe S P A has 3 pending office actions currently active in the Chemistry & Materials technology area. These 3 actions are assigned to 3 distinct examiners, which provides a variety of individual perspectives on the company's patent applications. Despite the involvement of multiple examiners, all 3 pending actions are concentrated within 1 distinct art unit, suggesting a very specific technical focus for the company's current prosecution efforts.
MATTHEWS, TERRELL HOWARD is the busiest examiner for the portfolio, overseeing 1 pending office action. This indicates that the 3 pending actions are evenly split among the 3 distinct examiners. For practitioners, this means that while the technical standards of the 1 distinct art unit will likely remain consistent, they must be prepared to respond to the unique examination approaches of different individuals. The concentration in 1 distinct art unit highlights the specialized nature of the company's chemistry and materials portfolio.
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 | 2 (67%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (33%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| TIGHE, BRENDAN P | 1 | 76.0% | +19.3% |
| MATTHEWS, TERRELL HOWARD | 1 | 84.0% | +11.0% |
| LEE, AIDEN Y | 1 | 47.8% | +25.3% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18954085 | MULTI-CHAMBER ASSEMBLY FOR HANDLING REMOVABLE EPITAXIAL REACTION UNITS | MATTHEWS, TERRELL HOWARD | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18567983 | REACTION CHAMBER WITH COVERING SYSTEM AND EPITAXIAL REACTOR | LEE, AIDEN Y | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18954046 | AUTOMATION SYSTEM FOR A REMOVABLE REACTION UNIT OF AN EPITAXIAL REACTOR | TIGHE, BRENDAN P | — |
| 18954085 | MULTI-CHAMBER ASSEMBLY FOR HANDLING REMOVABLE EPITAXIAL REACTION UNITS | MATTHEWS, TERRELL HOWARD | — |
| 18567983 | REACTION CHAMBER WITH COVERING SYSTEM AND EPITAXIAL REACTOR | LEE, AIDEN Y | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1718 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18954046 | AUTOMATION SYSTEM FOR A REMOVABLE REACTION UNIT OF AN EPITAXIAL REACTOR | TIGHE, BRENDAN P | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 20, 2024 |
| 18954085 | MULTI-CHAMBER ASSEMBLY FOR HANDLING REMOVABLE EPITAXIAL REACTION UNITS | MATTHEWS, TERRELL HOWARD | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 20, 2024 |
| 18567983 | REACTION CHAMBER WITH COVERING SYSTEM AND EPITAXIAL REACTOR | LEE, AIDEN Y | 1718 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 07, 2023 |
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