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
Petroliam Nasional Berhad currently manages a patent portfolio within the Chemistry & Materials technology area. The data shows 1 pending office action across the entire portfolio. This matter is handled by 1 distinct examiner working within 1 distinct art unit. The concentration of work indicates a specific technical focus for the current prosecution cycle, as the workload is contained within a lone administrative path. This organizational structure suggests that the company is currently prioritizing a very narrow set of intellectual property assets.
RODD, CHRISTOPHER M is identified as the busiest examiner for this portfolio. This individual is responsible for the 1 busiest examiner pending office action. As this examiner manages the full scope of active matters, practitioners can focus their strategy on the specific practices of this individual. The alignment of the total workload with a single examiner indicates a centralized prosecution stage where individual examiner tendencies are paramount for the success of the pending application. Understanding the specific requirements of this examiner and the associated art unit is essential for navigating the current prosecution landscape effectively.
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 |
|---|---|
| §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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| RODD, CHRISTOPHER M | 1 | 72.7% | +11.8% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17272883 | A REINFORCED POLYMERIC MATERIAL AND A METHOD OF MANUFACTURING A REINFORCED POLYMERIC MATERIAL | RODD, CHRISTOPHER M | 146d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1766 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17272883 | A REINFORCED POLYMERIC MATERIAL AND A METHOD OF MANUFACTURING A REINFORCED POLYMERIC MATERIAL | RODD, CHRISTOPHER M | 1766 | §103 | Final Rejection | 146d overdue | Pending | Mar 02, 2021 |
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