Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
2 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 2 patents granted in the last 365 days
Qingdao Mesnac Machinery& Electric Engineering Co. Ltd. holds a company patent portfolio in the Chemistry & Materials technology area. The portfolio currently has 1 pending office action. This 1 pending office action represents the total current engagement between the company and the patent office, suggesting a focused prosecution strategy.
The review process is conducted by 1 distinct examiner within 1 distinct art unit. This concentration indicates that the company's Chemistry & Materials innovations are being assessed by a single individual in a single technical division. For a practitioner, the presence of 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit simplifies the management of the portfolio by eliminating the need to coordinate across different art unit guidelines.
BOOTH, ALEXANDER D is the busiest examiner, managing 1 busiest examiner pending office action. As the sole examiner for the portfolio, BOOTH, ALEXANDER D holds the primary responsibility for the 1 pending office action. Success in this matter will likely depend on a direct and focused negotiation with this specific examiner to address the outstanding issues in the application.
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 |
|---|---|
| §112 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| BOOTH, ALEXANDER D | 2 | 54.4% | +37.6% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18723450 | TWO-STAGE FEEDING SYSTEM, TWO-STAGE BUILDING MACHINE, UNI-STAGE BUILDING MACHINE, AND FEEDING METHOD | BOOTH, ALEXANDER D | 8d |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18723450 | TWO-STAGE FEEDING SYSTEM, TWO-STAGE BUILDING MACHINE, UNI-STAGE BUILDING MACHINE, AND FEEDING METHOD | BOOTH, ALEXANDER D | 8d |
| 18723843 | CONTROL METHOD AND CONTROL SYSTEM FOR TIRE FORMING MACHINE, AND READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM | BOOTH, ALEXANDER D | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1749 | 2 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18723843 | CONTROL METHOD AND CONTROL SYSTEM FOR TIRE FORMING MACHINE, AND READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM | BOOTH, ALEXANDER D | 1749 | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 24, 2024 |
| 18723450 | TWO-STAGE FEEDING SYSTEM, TWO-STAGE BUILDING MACHINE, UNI-STAGE BUILDING MACHINE, AND FEEDING METHOD | BOOTH, ALEXANDER D | 1749 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 8d | Pending | Jun 23, 2024 |
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