Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
1 pending office actions • 0 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Obsidian Chemical Solutions LLC has 1 pending office action. This action is handled by 1 distinct examiner. The portfolio currently shows 0 distinct art units. TOOMER, CEPHIA D is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending office action.
The presence of the 1 pending office action under a distinct examiner indicates a very focused prosecution effort. With 0 distinct art units listed, the specific organizational unit at the USPTO is not identified in the current data. TOOMER, CEPHIA D is the sole examiner involved, overseeing the prosecution. This concentration suggests that the company's current patenting activity is limited to a single point of review. Practitioners should focus on the specific requirements of this examiner to resolve the pending matter.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| TOOMER, CEPHIA D | 1 | 74.4% | +2.5% |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18666469 | FRICTION REDUCER AND SCALE INHIBITOR | TOOMER, CEPHIA D | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 16, 2024 |
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