Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
1 pending office actions • 0 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 2 patents granted in the last 365 days
Op-T LLC currently has 1 pending office action. This action is assigned to 1 distinct examiner, CHESTNUT, BARRY A. Because there is only one matter, CHESTNUT, BARRY A is also the busiest examiner, with 1 busiest examiner pending office action. This means the company's current prosecution experience is concentrated under a single individual. The data shows 0 distinct art units for this pending action.
For a practitioner, managing 1 pending office action with 1 distinct examiner provides a very focused prosecution environment. There are no other pending cases to provide a comparison of examiner behavior or art unit trends within this portfolio. The success of the 1 pending office action depends entirely on the interaction with CHESTNUT, BARRY A. Without a listed technology area or art unit, the examiner's individual record becomes the primary source of data for predicting the prosecution's trajectory. This concentration of the workload under 1 distinct examiner simplifies the communication process.
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 |
|---|---|
| Double-patenting + other | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| CHESTNUT, BARRY A | 1 | 73.5% | +6.4% |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18746393 | BIOACTIVE PEPTIDES AND METHODS OF USE THEREOF | CHESTNUT, BARRY A | — | §103DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 18, 2024 |
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