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
Maine-Lee Technology Group LLC is currently navigating 1 pending office action within the Chemistry & Materials technology area. This active matter is handled by 1 distinct examiner, BOYD, JENNIFER A, who is the busiest examiner for the portfolio. The prosecution is localized within a distinct art unit, indicating a concentrated technical focus for the company's current patenting efforts. This pending office action represents the entirety of the company's active prosecution workload.
The presence of a pending office action indicates a narrow current focus for the company's patent filings. With the workload confined to a distinct art unit and examiner, the immediate outcomes for the portfolio depend on the specific standards and interpretations of BOYD, JENNIFER A within the Chemistry & Materials field. Practitioners must focus on the particular requirements of this examiner to advance the company's intellectual property goals in this technical sector.
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 |
|---|---|
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| BOYD, JENNIFER A | 1 | 32.3% | +44.5% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19202728 | FLUID MANAGEMENT SYSTEM, APPARATUS FOR MAKING FLUID MANAGEMENT SYSTEM AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING FLUID MANAGEMENT SYSTEM | BOYD, JENNIFER A | 6d |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19202728 | FLUID MANAGEMENT SYSTEM, APPARATUS FOR MAKING FLUID MANAGEMENT SYSTEM AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING FLUID MANAGEMENT SYSTEM | BOYD, JENNIFER A | 6d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1786 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19202728 | FLUID MANAGEMENT SYSTEM, APPARATUS FOR MAKING FLUID MANAGEMENT SYSTEM AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING FLUID MANAGEMENT SYSTEM | BOYD, JENNIFER A | 1786 | §102§103Other | Final Rejection | 6d | Pending | May 08, 2025 |
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