Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Chemistry & Materials • Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
3 pending office actions • 2 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 2 patents granted in the last 365 days
Redwood Materials Inc. is currently managing 2 pending office actions in the Chemistry & Materials technology area. These actions are distributed across 2 distinct examiners, yet they both fall within 1 distinct art unit. This indicates that while the company is dealing with different individuals, the technical oversight remains concentrated within a single administrative division of the patent office. This can lead to a more consistent application of technical standards despite the involvement of 2 different people.
The busiest examiner, FORRY, COLTON BUSA, is responsible for 1 pending office action. Given that the total number of pending actions is 2 and there are 2 distinct examiners, each examiner is handling exactly 1 matter. This distribution prevents any single examiner from having total control over the company's pending Chemistry & Materials applications. However, the fact that both examiners operate within 1 art unit means the company must still adhere to the specific policies of that 1 unit.
Practitioners should note that having 2 examiners for 2 pending actions provides a small degree of variety in prosecution experience. Because the 1 art unit is the common denominator, the company may find that the examiners share similar prior art resources or internal guidelines. This balance between 2 examiners and 1 art unit allows for a focused yet slightly diversified approach to securing patent rights in this technology sector.
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 | 2 (67%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (33%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FORRY, COLTON BUSA | 1 | 50.0% | +0.0% |
| BURKMAN, JESSICA LYNN | 1 | 82.1% | +15.7% |
| SLIFKA, SARAH A | 1 | 75.5% | +11.2% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18452974 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS OF AUTOMATICALLY SORTING BATTERIES | BURKMAN, JESSICA LYNN | 75d |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18211053 | LITHIUM-RICH COMPOSITIONS | SLIFKA, SARAH A | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18452974 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS OF AUTOMATICALLY SORTING BATTERIES | BURKMAN, JESSICA LYNN | 75d |
| 18211053 | LITHIUM-RICH COMPOSITIONS | SLIFKA, SARAH A | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3653 | 1 |
| 1759 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18485915 | ELECTRODEPOSITION DEVICE INCLUDING A SERIES-IN-PARALLEL-OUT RECTIFIER CIRCUIT | FORRY, COLTON BUSA | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 12, 2023 |
| 18452974 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS OF AUTOMATICALLY SORTING BATTERIES | BURKMAN, JESSICA LYNN | 3653 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 75d | Pending | Aug 21, 2023 |
| 18211053 | LITHIUM-RICH COMPOSITIONS | SLIFKA, SARAH A | 1759 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 16, 2023 |
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