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
Nicolo Bernucci operates in the Chemistry & Materials technology area. The company currently has 1 pending office action. This action is being reviewed by 1 distinct examiner within 1 distinct art unit. HARM, NICKOLAS R is the busiest examiner for the portfolio, overseeing 1 busiest examiner pending action.
The alignment of 1 pending office action with 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit reflects a highly focused prosecution profile. HARM, NICKOLAS R is the sole individual responsible for the current 1 busiest examiner pending action. This structure suggests a very specific technical niche in the Chemistry & Materials sector. Practitioners can expect a direct prosecution path given the lack of complexity in examiner or art unit distribution for the current pending workload.
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 |
|---|---|
| §103 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| HARM, NICKOLAS R | 1 | 79.5% | +5.8% |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1745 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18747719 | MULTILAYER MATERIAL FOR SEALING PACKAGES AND METHOD FOR PACKAGING A PRODUCT USING IT | HARM, NICKOLAS R | 1745 | §103 | Final Rejection | 22d | Pending | Jun 19, 2024 |
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