Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 4 patents granted in the last 365 days
Qingdao Ecopure Filter Co. Ltd. has 2 pending office actions in the Chemistry & Materials technology area. This active prosecution status indicates that the company is currently seeking to secure patent rights for its chemical or material-based technologies. The 2 pending actions represent the current workload for the company's legal team as they interface with the patent office.
The examination of these applications is split between 2 distinct examiners and 2 distinct art units. This means the company's patent strategy must account for the specific requirements and interpretations of different administrative entities. The presence of 2 distinct art units suggests that the company's innovations may involve different specialized areas within the broader Chemistry & Materials field.
KEYWORTH, PETER is the busiest examiner for the portfolio, with 1 busiest examiner pending action currently assigned. This 1 pending action is part of the company's 2 pending office actions. Monitoring the specific preferences and past decisions of this examiner is a critical component of the current prosecution strategy for the company.
Having 2 distinct examiners involved means that the company must be careful to maintain consistency in its technical disclosures and legal arguments. The 2 pending office actions in the Chemistry & Materials area are the primary focus of the company's current efforts to build its patent portfolio and protect its research investments.
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 |
|---|---|
| §103 only | 1 (50%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (50%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| KEYWORTH, PETER | 1 | 58.3% | +23.9% |
| KURTZ, BENJAMIN M | 1 | 56.8% | +17.6% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18496275 | WATER FILTER ELEMENT HAVING A REMOVAL AND REPLACEMENT MEMBER | KEYWORTH, PETER | 22d |
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 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18448694 | SELF-LOCKING FILTER CARTRIDGE AND ASSEMBLY | KURTZ, BENJAMIN M | 6d |
| 18496275 | WATER FILTER ELEMENT HAVING A REMOVAL AND REPLACEMENT MEMBER | KEYWORTH, PETER | 22d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1777 | 1 |
| 1779 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18496275 | WATER FILTER ELEMENT HAVING A REMOVAL AND REPLACEMENT MEMBER | KEYWORTH, PETER | 1777 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 22d | Pending | Oct 27, 2023 |
| 18448694 | SELF-LOCKING FILTER CARTRIDGE AND ASSEMBLY | KURTZ, BENJAMIN M | 1779 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 6d | Pending | Aug 11, 2023 |
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