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
Nordic Metals ApS holds a company patent portfolio in the Chemistry & Materials technology area. The data shows 1 pending office action for the portfolio. This action is handled by 1 distinct examiner and is located within the specified art unit. This concentration suggests that the company's current patent prosecution is focused on a single application or a very closely related group of claims within the Chemistry & Materials field.
The busiest examiner for this portfolio is POLLOCK, AUSTIN M, who is responsible for the busiest examiner pending action. Since the total number of pending office actions matches this examiner's workload, this individual is the only official currently reviewing the company's work. The fact that there is only the distinct art unit involved confirms that the prosecution is centralized under this examiner.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| POLLOCK, AUSTIN M | 1 | 51.3% | +36.1% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18255971 | POWDER MANUFACTURING FOR POWDER METALLURGY | POLLOCK, AUSTIN M | 12d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1738 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18255971 | POWDER MANUFACTURING FOR POWDER METALLURGY | POLLOCK, AUSTIN M | 1738 | §103 | Final Rejection | 12d | Pending | Jun 05, 2023 |
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