Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
2 pending office actions • 1 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 2 patents granted in the last 365 days
Paxis LLC currently manages 2 pending office actions within the Chemistry & Materials technology area. These matters are distributed across 2 distinct examiners, indicating a distribution of actions to examiners. Despite this distribution, the portfolio is concentrated within 1 distinct art unit, suggesting a narrow technical focus for their current filings. This concentration means that while different individuals are reviewing the work, they are likely applying the same art unit-specific guidelines and precedents.
SPARKS, RUSSELL E is identified as the busiest examiner for this portfolio. This specific examiner is responsible for 1 of the pending office actions. For practitioners, the concentration in 1 art unit despite having 2 examiners highlights a specific regulatory environment where examiner-specific tendencies may still vary within a unified technical classification. Navigating these 2 actions will require understanding the nuances of both SPARKS, RUSSELL E and the other assigned examiner, even as they operate within the same art unit framework. This approach ensures that the strategy remains sensitive to individual examiner preferences while respecting the overarching art unit standards.
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 |
|---|---|
| Double-patenting + other | 1 (50%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| SPARKS, RUSSELL E | 1 | 63.7% | +14.3% |
| SMITH JR., JIMMY R | 1 | 65.1% | +42.7% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18143837 | ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING APPARATUS, SYSTEM, AND METHOD | SMITH JR., JIMMY R | 56d overdue |
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 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18143837 | ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING APPARATUS, SYSTEM, AND METHOD | SMITH JR., JIMMY R | 56d overdue |
| 18649557 | Additive Manufacturing Apparatus, System and Method | SPARKS, RUSSELL E | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1745 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18649557 | Additive Manufacturing Apparatus, System and Method | SPARKS, RUSSELL E | — | §103DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 29, 2024 |
| 18143837 | ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING APPARATUS, SYSTEM, AND METHOD | SMITH JR., JIMMY R | 1745 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 56d overdue | Pending | May 05, 2023 |
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