Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
3 pending office actions • 2 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 2 patents granted in the last 365 days
Mantle Inc. currently manages 3 pending office actions in the Chemistry & Materials technology area. These filings are distributed across 3 distinct examiners, ensuring that each pending matter is under the review of a different official. This distribution requires the company to navigate 3 separate examiner perspectives within its chemistry focused portfolio. The use of 3 examiners for 3 actions indicates a balanced workload with no concentration of filings under a single reviewer.
The 3 pending actions are spread across 2 distinct art units, indicating some administrative variety within the Chemistry & Materials sector. CHOI, ALICIA M is the busiest examiner with 1 pending office action. Because the 3 pending actions are split among 3 examiners, the workload is perfectly balanced across the assigned staff. For the practitioner, managing 3 actions across 2 art units requires a coordinated strategy to handle the diverse requirements of different examiners while operating within a relatively narrow administrative range. This structure suggests that the company's technical focus is concentrated enough to remain within 2 specialized units.
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 |
|---|---|
| §101 + other | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| CHOI, ALICIA M | 1 | 79.3% | +28.6% |
| SMITH, CATHERINE P | 1 | 15.8% | +16.1% |
| WU, JENNY R | 1 | 63.5% | +16.0% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17641047 | DRYING DURING ADDITIVE AND SUBTRACTIVE MANUFACTURING | WU, JENNY R | 66d overdue |
| 18799709 | MODIFICATION OF PART REPRESENTATIONS FOR ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING | CHOI, ALICIA M | — |
| 18423968 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ADDITIVE METAL MANUFACTURING | SMITH, CATHERINE P | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17641047 | DRYING DURING ADDITIVE AND SUBTRACTIVE MANUFACTURING | WU, JENNY R | 66d overdue |
| 18799709 | MODIFICATION OF PART REPRESENTATIONS FOR ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING | CHOI, ALICIA M | — |
| 18423968 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ADDITIVE METAL MANUFACTURING | SMITH, CATHERINE P | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1735 | 1 |
| 1733 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18799709 | MODIFICATION OF PART REPRESENTATIONS FOR ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING | CHOI, ALICIA M | — | §101§102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 09, 2024 |
| 18423968 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ADDITIVE METAL MANUFACTURING | SMITH, CATHERINE P | 1735 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 26, 2024 |
| 17641047 | DRYING DURING ADDITIVE AND SUBTRACTIVE MANUFACTURING | WU, JENNY R | 1733 | §101§102§112 | Non-Final OA | 66d overdue | Pending | Mar 07, 2022 |
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