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 • 3 patents granted in the last 365 days
Quaker Chemical Corporation has 1 pending office action in the Chemistry & Materials technology area. This activity is localized within 1 distinct art unit. The portfolio currently interacts with 1 distinct examiner, suggesting a very specific prosecution focus. The 1 distinct art unit involved represents the company's current jurisdictional footprint at the patent office.
LAWLER, JOHN VINCENT is the busiest examiner, holding 1 pending office action. This single examiner is responsible for the 1 pending action currently active for the company. The concentration of 1 pending action under 1 examiner in 1 art unit simplifies the tracking of examiner-specific trends for the current portfolio. Practitioners can focus exclusively on the feedback from LAWLER, JOHN VINCENT.
The Chemistry & Materials sector often involves complex technical requirements, but the presence of only 1 distinct examiner streamlines the communication process. Because there is only 1 pending office action, the company's immediate success depends on the review of this single official. This 1 distinct examiner manages the entire active workload within the 1 distinct art unit.
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 |
|---|---|
| §103 only | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| LAWLER, JOHN VINCENT | 1 | 57.4% | +43.0% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18643644 | Transferable Maskants Suitable for Chemical Processing | LAWLER, JOHN VINCENT | 11d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1787 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18643644 | Transferable Maskants Suitable for Chemical Processing | LAWLER, JOHN VINCENT | 1787 | §103 | Final Rejection | 11d overdue | Pending | Apr 23, 2024 |
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