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 • 4 patents granted in the last 365 days
Nanoxplore Inc. currently manages 2 pending office actions within the Chemistry & Materials technology area. This portfolio is distributed across distinct examiners and distinct art units, with each category numbering 2. Such a distribution suggests that the company's research and development efforts may touch upon diverse chemical processes or material compositions, requiring oversight from multiple specialized groups at the patent office.
JEFFREY D WASHVILLE is identified as the busiest examiner for this applicant, currently handling 1 pending office action. For a practitioner, the presence of multiple art units and examiners means that prosecution strategies cannot be easily unified across the portfolio. Each examiner may have different preferences or interpretations of prior art within the Chemistry & Materials sector. Because the busiest examiner is only responsible for 1 pending office action, the workload is evenly split, preventing any individual from becoming a primary bottleneck for the company's intellectual property goals.
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) | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| WASHVILLE, JEFFREY D | 1 | 80.0% | -4.5% |
| KENLAW, GRACE A | 1 | 50.8% | +37.7% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18109408 | METHODS OF EXFOLIATING AND DISPERSING A GRAPHITIC MATERIAL INTO POLYMER MATRICES USING SUPERCRITICAL FLUIDS | WASHVILLE, JEFFREY D | — |
| 17988502 | GRAPHENE-PATCHED YOLK-SHELL ANODES AND METHODS OF PRODUCING THE SAME | KENLAW, GRACE A | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17988502 | GRAPHENE-PATCHED YOLK-SHELL ANODES AND METHODS OF PRODUCING THE SAME | KENLAW, GRACE A | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1766 | 1 |
| 1723 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18109408 | METHODS OF EXFOLIATING AND DISPERSING A GRAPHITIC MATERIAL INTO POLYMER MATRICES USING SUPERCRITICAL FLUIDS | WASHVILLE, JEFFREY D | 1766 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 14, 2023 |
| 17988502 | GRAPHENE-PATCHED YOLK-SHELL ANODES AND METHODS OF PRODUCING THE SAME | KENLAW, GRACE A | 1723 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 16, 2022 |
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