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
Mis Carbonart Pty Ltd. currently manages 1 pending office action within its company patent portfolio, which is focused on the Chemistry & Materials technology area. This single active case is assigned to 1 distinct art unit and is being reviewed by 1 distinct examiner, EMPIE, NATHAN H. The concentration of the portfolio's current activity into 1 pending office action indicates a highly specific focus for the company's patenting efforts at this time.
EMPIE, NATHAN H is identified as the busiest examiner for the portfolio, as they are responsible for the 1 pending office action. With only 1 distinct art unit and 1 distinct examiner involved, the company's prosecution landscape is very streamlined. This allows the legal team to focus all of its communication and strategy on a single individual and a single set of technical standards within the patent office.
The 1 pending office action in the Chemistry & Materials sector represents the entirety of the company's current active pipeline. EMPIE, NATHAN H, as the busiest examiner with 1 pending action, is the central figure in the company's efforts to secure patent protection. This focused environment ensures that the company can dedicate its full attention to the specific technical and procedural requirements of this single 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 |
|---|---|
| §112 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| EMPIE, NATHAN H | 1 | 43.5% | +43.1% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18920618 | METHOD FOR APPLYING A PROTECTIVE COATING TO A HAUL TRUCK TRAY | EMPIE, NATHAN H | 12d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1712 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18920618 | METHOD FOR APPLYING A PROTECTIVE COATING TO A HAUL TRUCK TRAY | EMPIE, NATHAN H | 1712 | §112Other | Non-Final OA | 12d | Pending | Oct 18, 2024 |
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