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
Recyc'Elit is currently managing 1 pending office action in the Chemistry & Materials technology area. This matter is assigned to a distinct examiner and a distinct art unit. The focused nature of this prosecution indicates a specific technological interest within the chemistry and materials sector. Such a concentrated approach allows the company to focus its technical arguments on the specific requirements of the assigned art unit.
The busiest examiner, RIETH, STEPHEN EDWARD, holds 1 busiest examiner pending office action. This action represents the total pending workload for the company. Because the prosecution is limited to 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit, the company can focus its resources on addressing the specific concerns of this examiner to advance its patent application. Practitioners should note that the outcome of this 1 pending office action is critical, as there are no other active matters to provide alternative paths to allowance. Successful negotiation with RIETH, STEPHEN EDWARD is the primary goal for the company's current intellectual property strategy.
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 |
|---|---|
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| RIETH, STEPHEN EDWARD | 1 | 45.8% | +32.9% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18253439 | IMPROVED METHOD FOR RECYCLING PET BY ALCOHOLYSIS | RIETH, STEPHEN EDWARD | 45d overdue |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18253439 | IMPROVED METHOD FOR RECYCLING PET BY ALCOHOLYSIS | RIETH, STEPHEN EDWARD | 45d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1759 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18253439 | IMPROVED METHOD FOR RECYCLING PET BY ALCOHOLYSIS | RIETH, STEPHEN EDWARD | 1759 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | 45d overdue | Pending | May 18, 2023 |
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