Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
4 pending office actions • 2 art units • 4 examiners • 0 of 4 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 7 patents granted in the last 365 days
Pax Labs Inc. maintains a company patent portfolio in the Chemistry & Materials technology area. There are currently 4 pending office actions for this portfolio. These actions are distributed among 4 distinct examiners, meaning that every pending matter is being reviewed by a different individual. Despite the variety of examiners, the prosecution is concentrated within 2 distinct art units, suggesting that the applications fall into two primary technical categories.
The busiest examiner for Pax Labs Inc. is YAARY, ERIC, who is responsible for 1 busiest examiner pending action. Because there are 4 distinct examiners, the practitioner must navigate different examination styles. However, the focus on 2 distinct art units may provide some consistency in the technical standards applied to the applications. The workload is widely distributed among examiners, as the busiest examiner only handles 1 of the active matters. This requires a broad management approach to address the specific feedback from each distinct examiner across the art units.
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 |
|---|---|
| §102 only | 1 (25%) |
| Double-patenting only | 1 (25%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (50%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| YAARY, ERIC | 1 | 73.8% | +3.3% |
| YOO, HONG THI | 1 | 45.8% | +26.0% |
| WILL, KATHERINE A | 1 | 67.2% | +20.3% |
| NGUYEN, PHU HOANG | 1 | 65.9% | +19.7% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18696910 | VAPORIZER CARTRIDGE TYPE DETECTION | YAARY, ERIC | — |
| 18549297 | OPERATIONAL MODE SELECTION OF A VAPORIZER DEVICE | NGUYEN, PHU HOANG | — |
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 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18421313 | RAPID ONSET CANNABINOID COMPOSITIONS | YOO, HONG THI | — |
| 18420603 | TEMPERATURE ADJUSTMENT OF A VAPORIZER DEVICE | WILL, KATHERINE A | — |
| 18549297 | OPERATIONAL MODE SELECTION OF A VAPORIZER DEVICE | NGUYEN, PHU HOANG | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1792 | 1 |
| 1700 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18696910 | VAPORIZER CARTRIDGE TYPE DETECTION | YAARY, ERIC | — | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 28, 2024 |
| 18421313 | RAPID ONSET CANNABINOID COMPOSITIONS | YOO, HONG THI | 1792 | §102 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jan 24, 2024 |
| 18420603 | TEMPERATURE ADJUSTMENT OF A VAPORIZER DEVICE | WILL, KATHERINE A | — | DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 23, 2024 |
| 18549297 | OPERATIONAL MODE SELECTION OF A VAPORIZER DEVICE | NGUYEN, PHU HOANG | 1700 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 06, 2023 |
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