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
Ma-Fra S P A has 1 pending office action in the Chemistry & Materials technology area. This active case is assigned to 1 distinct examiner, GOLIGHTLY, ERIC WAYNE, who is the busiest examiner in the portfolio with a pending count of 1. The prosecution is currently localized within 1 distinct art unit, which suggests a specific focus within the chemistry sector.
The current data suggests a low-volume, high-focus approach to patent acquisition in the Chemistry & Materials sector. Because there is only 1 distinct examiner involved, the company's immediate patent goals depend on the specific feedback from GOLIGHTLY, ERIC WAYNE. The concentration in the 1 distinct art unit further emphasizes the specific nature of the technology currently under review. This limited data set indicates a straightforward prosecution path for the 1 pending office action.
For a practitioner, the primary goal is to successfully navigate the pending office action with the assigned examiner. The fact that this official is the only examiner for the portfolio means that all current prosecution efforts are concentrated on a single relationship. This art unit focus allows the legal team to specialize in the specific prior art and examination standards relevant to that unit. The small scale of the portfolio ensures that resources can be fully dedicated to the 1 active application.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| GOLIGHTLY, ERIC WAYNE | 1 | 77.6% | +25.5% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18700010 | DETERGENT COMPOSITION FOR INTERNAL PARTS OF VEHICLES | GOLIGHTLY, ERIC WAYNE | 26d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1714 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18700010 | DETERGENT COMPOSITION FOR INTERNAL PARTS OF VEHICLES | GOLIGHTLY, ERIC WAYNE | 1714 | §103 | Final Rejection | 26d overdue | Pending | Apr 10, 2024 |
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