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
Nostics B.V. currently manages a patent portfolio focused on the Chemistry & Materials technology area. The portfolio shows a concentrated prosecution landscape with 1 pending office action. This matter is handled by 1 distinct examiner within a distinct art unit. Such a narrow distribution indicates that the company's current legal efforts are focused on a specific set of claims or a patent application.
The busiest examiner for the company is HURST, JONATHAN M, who is responsible for the busiest examiner pending office action. This concentration suggests that the current prosecution activity is limited to a specific technical niche. Practitioners should monitor how this examiner manages the workload within the Chemistry & Materials sector, as the outcome of this specific action will dictate the immediate growth of the portfolio. The lack of diversification across multiple art units or examiners means that the company's patent strategy is currently sensitive to the specific preferences of an office official.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| HURST, JONATHAN M | 1 | 53.6% | +18.7% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17920696 | BIOMOLECULE DETECTION USING SURFACE-ENHANCED RAMAN SPECTROSCOPY | HURST, JONATHAN M | 23d |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17920696 | BIOMOLECULE DETECTION USING SURFACE-ENHANCED RAMAN SPECTROSCOPY | HURST, JONATHAN M | 23d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1799 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17920696 | BIOMOLECULE DETECTION USING SURFACE-ENHANCED RAMAN SPECTROSCOPY | HURST, JONATHAN M | 1799 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | 23d | Pending | Oct 21, 2022 |
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