Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
3 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Plasmability LLC currently has 3 pending office actions within the Chemistry & Materials technology area. These actions are distributed among 2 distinct examiners. The busiest examiner for the portfolio is SONG, MATTHEW J, who is responsible for 2 busiest examiner pending actions. This means that SONG, MATTHEW J handles a larger portion of the 3 pending office actions than the other distinct examiner.
The portfolio's activity is spread across 2 distinct art units. This distribution matches the number of 2 distinct examiners, suggesting that each examiner may be operating within a different art unit. With 3 pending office actions in total, the company is engaging with the patent office on multiple matters within the Chemistry & Materials sector. The 2 busiest examiner pending actions assigned to SONG, MATTHEW J indicate a point of concentration for the company's prosecution efforts.
The use of 2 distinct examiners across 2 distinct art units for the 3 pending office actions provides variety in the examination process. The fact that SONG, MATTHEW J handles 2 busiest examiner pending actions suggests that his decisions will have a significant impact on the overall success of the portfolio. Practitioners should focus on the specific requirements of the 2 distinct art units involved to effectively manage these 3 pending office actions.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 2 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 (33%) |
| §112 only | 1 (33%) |
| Double-patenting only | 1 (33%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| SONG, MATTHEW J | 2 | 60.4% | +13.9% |
| BOWMAN, ANDREW J | 1 | 65.9% | +13.2% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18412905 | Method of Growing Personalized Single Crystal Diamond | SONG, MATTHEW J | 71d overdue |
| 18328726 | Multiple Chamber System for Plasma Chemical Vapor Deposition of Diamond and Related Materials | BOWMAN, ANDREW J | 70d overdue |
| 18937248 | Method of Growing Single Crystal Diamond Assisted by Polycrystalline Diamond Growth | SONG, MATTHEW J | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1714 | 1 |
| 1717 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18937248 | Method of Growing Single Crystal Diamond Assisted by Polycrystalline Diamond Growth | SONG, MATTHEW J | — | DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 05, 2024 |
| 18412905 | Method of Growing Personalized Single Crystal Diamond | SONG, MATTHEW J | 1714 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 71d overdue | Pending | Jan 15, 2024 |
| 18328726 | Multiple Chamber System for Plasma Chemical Vapor Deposition of Diamond and Related Materials | BOWMAN, ANDREW J | 1717 | §112 | Non-Final OA | 70d overdue | Pending | Jun 03, 2023 |
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