Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Chemistry & Materials • Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
5 pending office actions • 5 art units • 5 examiners • 0 of 5 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 2 patents granted in the last 365 days
Provigate Inc. is actively managing 4 pending office actions within the Chemistry & Materials technology area. These matters are distributed across 4 distinct art units, indicating a diverse range of technical examination for the company's current patent applications. This spread suggests that the portfolio covers multiple specific sub-sectors within the broader chemistry and materials field, requiring specialized attention for each art unit.
The prosecution landscape involves 4 distinct examiners, ensuring that each pending matter is being reviewed by a different individual. KAUR, GURPREET is identified as the busiest examiner for the company, currently handling 1 pending office action. This distribution shows that no examiner holds a majority of the workload, as the total pending matters are split evenly among the examiners involved. This decentralized approach means that prosecution outcomes are independent of one another.
For patent practitioners, the presence of multiple art units and examiners for these office actions highlights a varied prosecution environment. Each of the pending matters requires engagement with a unique examiner and art unit within the Chemistry & Materials technology area. This requires a broad strategy to address the different perspectives of the examiners involved to advance the portfolio.
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 |
|---|---|
| §101 + other | 1 (20%) |
| §103 only | 1 (20%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 3 (60%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| KAUR, GURPREET | 1 | 65.2% | +35.9% |
| HERON, VELVET ELIZABETH | 1 | 47.4% | +52.6% |
| HUANG, MICKEY NMN | 1 | 59.6% | +49.2% |
| KASS, BENJAMIN JOSEPH | 1 | 32.6% | +58.9% |
| HRANEK, KAREN AMANDA | 1 | 34.5% | +39.9% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 4 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17258670 | HEALTHCARE MANAGEMENT METHOD | HRANEK, KAREN AMANDA | 9d |
| 18793061 | GLYCATED PROTEIN SENSOR, MEASUREMENT METHOD, PROGRAM, AND SENSOR MANUFACTURE METHOD | KAUR, GURPREET | — |
| 18262125 | MICROPLATE, MEASUREMENT METHOD USING THE SAME, AUTOMATIC MEASUREMENT SYSTEM, AND PROGRAM | HERON, VELVET ELIZABETH | — |
| 18000307 | LIQUID COLLECTOR AND METHOD FOR COLLECTING LIQUID | KASS, BENJAMIN JOSEPH | — |
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 5 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18262043 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR EVALUATING DEGREE OF GLYCATION OF PROTEIN | HUANG, MICKEY NMN | 19d overdue |
| 17258670 | HEALTHCARE MANAGEMENT METHOD | HRANEK, KAREN AMANDA | 9d |
| 18793061 | GLYCATED PROTEIN SENSOR, MEASUREMENT METHOD, PROGRAM, AND SENSOR MANUFACTURE METHOD | KAUR, GURPREET | — |
| 18262125 | MICROPLATE, MEASUREMENT METHOD USING THE SAME, AUTOMATIC MEASUREMENT SYSTEM, AND PROGRAM | HERON, VELVET ELIZABETH | — |
| 18000307 | LIQUID COLLECTOR AND METHOD FOR COLLECTING LIQUID | KASS, BENJAMIN JOSEPH | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1759 | 1 |
| 1798 | 1 |
| 1758 | 1 |
| 1797 | 1 |
| 3684 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18793061 | GLYCATED PROTEIN SENSOR, MEASUREMENT METHOD, PROGRAM, AND SENSOR MANUFACTURE METHOD | KAUR, GURPREET | 1759 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 02, 2024 |
| 18262125 | MICROPLATE, MEASUREMENT METHOD USING THE SAME, AUTOMATIC MEASUREMENT SYSTEM, AND PROGRAM | HERON, VELVET ELIZABETH | 1798 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 19, 2023 |
| 18262043 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR EVALUATING DEGREE OF GLYCATION OF PROTEIN | HUANG, MICKEY NMN | 1758 | §103 | Final Rejection | 19d overdue | Pending | Jul 19, 2023 |
| 18000307 | LIQUID COLLECTOR AND METHOD FOR COLLECTING LIQUID | KASS, BENJAMIN JOSEPH | 1797 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 30, 2022 |
| 17258670 | HEALTHCARE MANAGEMENT METHOD | HRANEK, KAREN AMANDA | 3684 | §101§112 | Non-Final OA | 9d | Pending | Jun 16, 2021 |
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