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 • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
National Shelter Products Inc. operates in the Chemistry & Materials technology area with 1 pending office action currently on record. This action is distributed across 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit, showing a singular focus for the company's current patent prosecution. The use of 1 art unit indicates that the company's current chemical and material innovations are being reviewed by one specialized examination group.
The busiest examiner for the portfolio is IMANI, ELIZABETH MARY COLE, who is responsible for 1 pending office action. This examiner handles the company's entire pending workload, as reflected by the busiest examiner pending count of 1. For practitioners, the current prosecution landscape for National Shelter Products Inc. is defined by this single interaction within the Chemistry & Materials sector. Success in this matter will depend on addressing the specific concerns of this 1 examiner, as there are no other pending actions currently involved in the portfolio.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| IMANI, ELIZABETH MARY COLE | 1 | 33.5% | +25.0% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18675238 | COMPOSITE STRUCTURAL INSULATION PANELS AND METHODS OF MANUFACTURE | IMANI, ELIZABETH MARY COLE | 44d overdue |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18675238 | COMPOSITE STRUCTURAL INSULATION PANELS AND METHODS OF MANUFACTURE | IMANI, ELIZABETH MARY COLE | 44d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1789 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18675238 | COMPOSITE STRUCTURAL INSULATION PANELS AND METHODS OF MANUFACTURE | IMANI, ELIZABETH MARY COLE | 1789 | §102§103Other | Non-Final OA | 44d overdue | Pending | May 28, 2024 |
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