Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
2 pending office actions • 1 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
RESTEK Corporation currently has 2 pending office actions in the Chemistry & Materials technology area. These actions are assigned to 2 distinct examiners. The prosecution is occurring within 1 distinct art unit, suggesting a concentrated technical focus for the company's current patent applications. The 2 pending office actions represent the active workload for the firm at the patent office.
The busiest examiner for this portfolio is BAUM, ZACHARY JOHN, who is responsible for 1 pending office action. This 1 pending action is equal to the workload of the other of the 2 distinct examiners. Because the 2 pending office actions are split between 2 distinct examiners, the company is engaging with multiple officials within the same 1 distinct art unit.
Practitioners should note that the Chemistry & Materials filings are being reviewed by 2 distinct examiners, which provides different points of contact for the 2 pending office actions. The 1 distinct art unit indicates a consistent technical environment for these cases. BAUM, ZACHARY JOHN manages 1 pending action, showing that no single examiner dominates the current portfolio. This distribution defines the current prosecution landscape for RESTEK Corporation.
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%) |
| §102 only | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| BAUM, ZACHARY JOHN | 1 | 81.5% | +14.9% |
| MUTREJA, JYOTI NAGPAUL | 1 | 81.0% | +4.0% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18293203 | SILICA-PASSIVATED ARTICLE AND METHOD FOR FORMING | BAUM, ZACHARY JOHN | — |
| 18558426 | TAYLOR CONE EMITTER DEVICE AUTOMATED HANDLER, TAYLOR CONE EMITTER DEVICE AUTOMATED HANDLING SYSTEM, AND METHOD FOR ANALYZING A SAMPLE | MUTREJA, JYOTI NAGPAUL | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18293203 | SILICA-PASSIVATED ARTICLE AND METHOD FOR FORMING | BAUM, ZACHARY JOHN | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1798 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18293203 | SILICA-PASSIVATED ARTICLE AND METHOD FOR FORMING | BAUM, ZACHARY JOHN | — | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 29, 2024 |
| 18558426 | TAYLOR CONE EMITTER DEVICE AUTOMATED HANDLER, TAYLOR CONE EMITTER DEVICE AUTOMATED HANDLING SYSTEM, AND METHOD FOR ANALYZING A SAMPLE | MUTREJA, JYOTI NAGPAUL | 1798 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 01, 2023 |
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