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 • 2 patents granted in the last 365 days
Ningbo Signatronic Technologies, Ltd. has a patent portfolio in the Chemistry & Materials technology area. There is currently 1 pending office action for the company. This action is assigned to 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit. The presence of 1 distinct art unit indicates that the company's current Chemistry & Materials research is being reviewed by 1 specialized group at the USPTO.
WASHVILLE, JEFFREY D is the busiest examiner for the portfolio, currently managing 1 pending office action. The involvement of 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit shows that the company's current pending matters are concentrated in 1 area of Chemistry & Materials research. This means that WASHVILLE, JEFFREY D is the sole examiner responsible for the company's active workload. With 1 pending office action and 1 distinct examiner, the prosecution process is concentrated. This profile allows for interaction with the patent office and affects the management of the company's pending intellectual property matters.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| WASHVILLE, JEFFREY D | 1 | 80.0% | -4.5% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18520591 | RECYCLED POLYSTYRENE PLASTIC FILM, ACOUSTO-MAGNETIC ANTI-THEFT LABEL, ACOUSTO-MAGNETIC ANTI-THEFT LABEL HOUSING, AND PREPARATION METHODS THEREOF | WASHVILLE, JEFFREY D | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1741 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18520591 | RECYCLED POLYSTYRENE PLASTIC FILM, ACOUSTO-MAGNETIC ANTI-THEFT LABEL, ACOUSTO-MAGNETIC ANTI-THEFT LABEL HOUSING, AND PREPARATION METHODS THEREOF | WASHVILLE, JEFFREY D | 1741 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 28, 2023 |
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