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
Politex S A S Di Freudenberg Politex S R L has 1 pending office action currently active in the Chemistry & Materials technology area. This prosecution is being handled by 1 distinct examiner, IMANI, ELIZABETH MARY COLE, within 1 distinct art unit. The singular nature of this pending action means that the company's immediate patent strategy is focused on a single point of contact at the USPTO.
IMANI, ELIZABETH MARY COLE is the busiest examiner for the portfolio, with 1 pending office action under review. This examiner represents the entirety of the company's current pending workload, making the relationship with this specific official paramount. The alignment of 1 examiner and 1 art unit for 1 pending action suggests a direct prosecution process with no internal conflicts or diverse examiner requirements.
Practitioners managing this portfolio can focus their resources on addressing the specific concerns of IMANI, ELIZABETH MARY COLE. Because the technology is categorized under Chemistry & Materials, the arguments will likely be technically rigorous but benefit from the consistency of a single examiner's perspective. The lack of multiple pending actions simplifies docket management and allows for a concentrated effort on this individual application within its assigned art unit.
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 |
|---|---|
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| IMANI, ELIZABETH MARY COLE | 1 | 33.5% | +25.0% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18654112 | BINDING RESIN FOR NONWOVEN FABRICS, IN PARTICULAR FOR MANUFACTURING SUPPORTS FOR BITUMINOUS MEMBRANES, A METHOD FOR PREPARING IT, AND A NONWOVEN FABRIC OBTAINED BY USING SAID RESIN | IMANI, ELIZABETH MARY COLE | 22d |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18654112 | BINDING RESIN FOR NONWOVEN FABRICS, IN PARTICULAR FOR MANUFACTURING SUPPORTS FOR BITUMINOUS MEMBRANES, A METHOD FOR PREPARING IT, AND A NONWOVEN FABRIC OBTAINED BY USING SAID RESIN | IMANI, ELIZABETH MARY COLE | 22d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1789 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18654112 | BINDING RESIN FOR NONWOVEN FABRICS, IN PARTICULAR FOR MANUFACTURING SUPPORTS FOR BITUMINOUS MEMBRANES, A METHOD FOR PREPARING IT, AND A NONWOVEN FABRIC OBTAINED BY USING SAID RESIN | IMANI, ELIZABETH MARY COLE | 1789 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | 22d | Pending | May 03, 2024 |
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