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
Octal Inc. is a company operating within the Chemistry & Materials technology area. The data shows 1 pending office action for the portfolio. This 1 pending office action is being processed in 1 distinct art unit, which indicates a singular point of technical review for the company's current filings.
The examiner for this case is KOLB, KATARZYNA I, who is the only distinct examiner listed. This busiest examiner is currently managing 1 pending office action. This 1 pending office action constitutes the total active prosecution for Octal Inc. at this time.
The presence of 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit means that the prosecution is not distributed across different departments. For a practitioner, this implies that the outcome of the pending matter is tied to the specific standards of KOLB, KATARZYNA I. The focus on 1 art unit suggests the technology is concentrated in a specific chemical or material field.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| KOLB, KATARZYNA I | 1 | 45.2% | +15.9% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18189710 | POLYETHYLENE TEREPHTHALATE ALLOY HAVING TALC | KOLB, KATARZYNA I | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18189710 | POLYETHYLENE TEREPHTHALATE ALLOY HAVING TALC | KOLB, KATARZYNA I | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1767 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18189710 | POLYETHYLENE TEREPHTHALATE ALLOY HAVING TALC | KOLB, KATARZYNA I | 1767 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 24, 2023 |
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