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
Pre-Insulated Metal Technologies Inc. currently has 1 pending office action in the Chemistry & Materials technology area. The prosecution is limited to 1 distinct examiner and a distinct art unit. This suggests a very focused area of active patenting. The concentration in a single art unit indicates that the company's metal-related innovations are being reviewed by a specialized group with consistent examination standards.
Examiner MALLEY JR., DANIEL PATRICK is the busiest examiner, holding the pending office action. Since this is the only active case, the official's specific review is the primary factor in the current prosecution. Practitioners should focus on meeting the requirements of this single official within the art unit. This centralized environment allows for a direct dialogue with the patent office, as there are no other active examiners or art units to coordinate with at this time, ensuring a streamlined prosecution process for the 1 pending office action.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| MALLEY JR., DANIEL PATRICK | 1 | 56.5% | +45.7% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18763045 | Insulated Roof Panels With Integrated Photovoltaic Panels | MALLEY JR., DANIEL PATRICK | 5d |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18763045 | Insulated Roof Panels With Integrated Photovoltaic Panels | MALLEY JR., DANIEL PATRICK | 5d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1726 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18763045 | Insulated Roof Panels With Integrated Photovoltaic Panels | MALLEY JR., DANIEL PATRICK | 1726 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | 5d | Pending | Jul 03, 2024 |
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