Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Molecular Plasma Group SA is currently prosecuting a patent portfolio within the Chemistry & Materials technology area. The company has a moderate level of activity, with 2 pending office actions currently in the pipeline. This indicates a broader range of active intellectual property development than portfolios with a single pending matter, reflecting a more diverse research agenda.
The prosecution is distributed across 2 distinct examiners and a set of distinct art units. This distribution shows that the company's technical claims are diverse enough to be reviewed by different specialized groups within the patent office. MILLER, JR, JOSEPH ALBERT is identified as the busiest examiner for the portfolio, currently handling 1 pending office action. While the workload is split, the presence of multiple examiners and art units suggests that the company must navigate different examination styles and technical standards across its pending applications to achieve its intellectual property goals.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 2 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 | 2 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| MILLER, JR, JOSEPH ALBERT | 1 | 68.4% | +16.2% |
| DAGENAIS, KRISTEN A | 1 | 63.8% | +20.2% |
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 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17292349 | IMPROVED METHOD FOR PLASMA IMMOBILIZATION OF A BIOMOLECULE TO A SUBSTRATE VIA A LINKING MOLECULE | DAGENAIS, KRISTEN A | 51d overdue |
| 18459809 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE PLASMA JET COATING DEPOSITION ON A SUBSTRATE | MILLER, JR, JOSEPH ALBERT | 50d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1712 | 1 |
| 1717 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18459809 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE PLASMA JET COATING DEPOSITION ON A SUBSTRATE | MILLER, JR, JOSEPH ALBERT | 1712 | §103 | Final Rejection | 50d overdue | Pending | Sep 01, 2023 |
| 17292349 | IMPROVED METHOD FOR PLASMA IMMOBILIZATION OF A BIOMOLECULE TO A SUBSTRATE VIA A LINKING MOLECULE | DAGENAIS, KRISTEN A | 1717 | §103 | Final Rejection | 51d overdue | Pending | May 07, 2021 |
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