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
Polytech Inc. maintains a patent portfolio focused on the Chemistry & Materials technology area. The company is currently responding to 1 pending office action. This active matter is assigned to 1 distinct examiner and is situated within 1 distinct art unit, which points to a very specific technical and administrative focus for the company's current filings.
The busiest examiner for the portfolio is TATESURE, VINCENT, who is responsible for 1 busiest examiner pending office action. Since the total number of pending office actions is 1, TATESURE, VINCENT is the only examiner currently reviewing the company's active patent applications. This concentration allows the company to tailor its prosecution strategy to the specific requirements of a single official.
The involvement of 1 distinct art unit indicates that the company's chemistry and materials innovations are being evaluated within a single regulatory framework. With the current active filing to manage, the company's immediate legal workload is streamlined. Practitioners can focus their efforts on addressing the specific feedback from TATESURE, VINCENT to advance the company's intellectual property goals.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| TATESURE, VINCENT | 1 | 44.9% | +31.5% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18641284 | TARPAULIN HAVING IMPROVED FLEXIBILITY, ADHESION, AND SURFACE STRENGTH AND MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREFOR | TATESURE, VINCENT | 20d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1786 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18641284 | TARPAULIN HAVING IMPROVED FLEXIBILITY, ADHESION, AND SURFACE STRENGTH AND MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREFOR | TATESURE, VINCENT | 1786 | §103 | Final Rejection | 20d | Pending | Apr 19, 2024 |
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