Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
1 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Robert David Jones Iii maintains a patent portfolio in the Chemistry & Materials technology area. Currently, the company has 1 pending office action. This activity is limited to 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit, which indicates a highly focused area of examination. Such a concentration suggests that the company's intellectual property strategy is currently centered on a specific technical niche within the broader Chemistry & Materials field.
The busiest examiner for this portfolio is KOCH, GEORGE R, who is handling 1 pending office action. Because the total number of pending office actions is 1, KOCH, GEORGE R is the sole individual reviewing the company's active applications. The prosecution strategy for this portfolio is therefore entirely centered on the interactions within the 1 distinct art unit. For a practitioner, this implies that understanding the historical allowance rates and preferences of KOCH, GEORGE R is critical for predicting the success of the 1 pending office action.
The presence of only 1 distinct examiner further reinforces the specialized nature of the company's current filings. With the pending office action as the only active matter, the company's immediate legal focus is streamlined. This lack of diversity in examiners and art units simplifies the management of the portfolio but also increases the impact of any single decision made by the assigned examiner within the Chemistry & Materials sector.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| KOCH, GEORGE R | 1 | 72.8% | +17.0% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18238865 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR BONDING REINFORCED HDPE PIPES | KOCH, GEORGE R | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1745 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18238865 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR BONDING REINFORCED HDPE PIPES | KOCH, GEORGE R | 1745 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Aug 28, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialRobert David Jones Iii has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
George R Koch has the most, with 1 of Robert David Jones Iii's pending office actions.
Mostly Chemistry & Materials (USPTO Tech Center 1700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
