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 • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Powertech Water Inc. manages 1 pending office action within the Chemistry & Materials technology area. This matter is assigned to 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit, focusing the company's current prosecution on a single administrative channel. This concentration indicates that the company's immediate legal efforts are dedicated to a specific water-related chemical innovation. The pending office action is the only active matter currently being reviewed by the patent office for this company.
The busiest examiner for the portfolio is RIPA, BRYAN D, who handles 1 busiest examiner pending office action. The company's immediate patent outcomes are currently dependent on the specific examination style of this official. For a practitioner, it is essential to understand the examiner's previous actions and technical requirements within the Chemistry & Materials field. The success of the 1 pending office action will be the primary factor in the company's near-term intellectual property growth. Effectively addressing the concerns of this specific examiner is the most important step for the company's current prosecution strategy.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| RIPA, BRYAN D | 1 | 53.9% | +37.2% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18078304 | ELECTROCHEMICAL DEVICES WITH ENHANCED STABILITIES | RIPA, BRYAN D | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18078304 | ELECTROCHEMICAL DEVICES WITH ENHANCED STABILITIES | RIPA, BRYAN D | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1794 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18078304 | ELECTROCHEMICAL DEVICES WITH ENHANCED STABILITIES | RIPA, BRYAN D | 1794 | §102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 09, 2022 |
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