Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Chemistry & Materials • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
6 pending office actions • 3 art units • 6 examiners • 0 of 6 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 5 patents granted in the last 365 days
Pyrotek Inc. currently has 5 pending office actions within the Chemistry & Materials technology area. These actions are being handled by 5 distinct examiners, which indicates that each pending matter is assigned to a different individual. This distribution suggests a lack of examiner concentration across the company's active prosecution files.
The company's applications are distributed across 3 distinct art units, reflecting a focused but multi-faceted technical scope within chemistry and materials. GILLENWATERS, JACKSON N is the busiest examiner for the company, currently overseeing 1 pending office action. Because each of the 5 distinct examiners is only managing 1 pending office action, the company must navigate 5 separate examination styles. The 5 pending office actions are spread across 3 distinct art units, requiring the company to meet the specific technical requirements of these different groups during the prosecution of its materials-related innovations.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 3 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.
Every pending office action with a known statutory deadline, placed on a days-until-due axis. Dots left of Today are overdue; the further right, the more runway. Cases that share a deadline window stack vertically. 3 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.
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 (17%) |
| §112 only | 1 (17%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 4 (67%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| GILLENWATERS, JACKSON N | 1 | 82.9% | +12.7% |
| TRAN, LEN | 1 | 14.9% | +23.6% |
| HA, STEVEN S | 1 | 70.2% | +30.0% |
| STILES, JACOB BENJAMIN | 1 | 0.0% | +0.0% |
| SMOOT, MORIAH SIMONE MCMIL | 1 | 63.9% | +6.7% |
| PULLEN, NIKOLAS TAKUYA | 1 | 52.5% | +8.4% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 5 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18287946 | SHAFT AND POST ASSEMBLIES FOR MOLTEN APPARATUS | STILES, JACOB BENJAMIN | 16d overdue |
| 17908442 | MECHANICAL AUGER RECIRCULATION WELL | PULLEN, NIKOLAS TAKUYA | 15d overdue |
| 18838392 | CASTING FURNACE | HA, STEVEN S | 20d |
| 18881076 | MOLTEN METAL IMPELLER WITH ROCK GUARD | GILLENWATERS, JACKSON N | — |
| 18838976 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR IMPROVING ALUMINUM DEGASSING EFFICIENCY | TRAN, LEN | — |
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 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18838392 | CASTING FURNACE | HA, STEVEN S | 20d |
| 18881076 | MOLTEN METAL IMPELLER WITH ROCK GUARD | GILLENWATERS, JACKSON N | — |
| 18838976 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR IMPROVING ALUMINUM DEGASSING EFFICIENCY | TRAN, LEN | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1733 | 3 |
| 3745 | 1 |
| 1735 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18881076 | MOLTEN METAL IMPELLER WITH ROCK GUARD | GILLENWATERS, JACKSON N | 3745 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jan 03, 2025 |
| 18838976 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR IMPROVING ALUMINUM DEGASSING EFFICIENCY | TRAN, LEN | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 15, 2024 |
| 18838392 | CASTING FURNACE | HA, STEVEN S | 1735 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | 20d | Pending | Aug 14, 2024 |
| 18287946 | SHAFT AND POST ASSEMBLIES FOR MOLTEN APPARATUS | STILES, JACOB BENJAMIN | 1733 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | 16d overdue | Pending | Oct 23, 2023 |
| 18202395 | FILTER HANDLING TOOL | SMOOT, MORIAH SIMONE MCMIL | 1733 | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 26, 2023 |
| 17908442 | MECHANICAL AUGER RECIRCULATION WELL | PULLEN, NIKOLAS TAKUYA | 1733 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 15d overdue | Pending | Aug 31, 2022 |
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