Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Roberts Marketing De Inc. currently manages 2 pending office actions within the Chemistry & Materials technology area. These active matters are assigned to 2 distinct examiners and 2 distinct art units. This 1 to 1 ratio of office actions to examiners indicates that each pending application is receiving independent review from a different individual within the patent office. The presence of 2 distinct art units suggests that the company's innovations fall into different specialized categories within the chemistry sector.
The busiest examiner for the portfolio is ROYCE, LIAM A, who is responsible for 1 pending office action. Because the 2 pending office actions are split between 2 distinct examiners, the company's prosecution efforts are not concentrated under a single point of contact. Practitioners should be prepared to address the specific preferences of 2 distinct examiners across these 2 distinct art units. Maintaining consistency in the prosecution of 2 pending office actions requires careful coordination, especially when dealing with different examiners who may have varying interpretations of the relevant technology area. Studying the past behavior of ROYCE, LIAM A is essential for the 1 pending office action under their review.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 2 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) | 2 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ROYCE, LIAM A | 1 | 65.6% | +22.1% |
| BERGNER, ERIN FLANAGAN | 1 | 76.5% | +30.6% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18098583 | APPARATUS FOR PREVENTING IMPURITIES IN A WASHING FLUID FROM CLOGGING AN UNDERDRAIN AND METHODS FOR PREVENTING CLOGGING OF THE UNDERDRAIN AND/OR MONITORING THE APPARATUS | BERGNER, ERIN FLANAGAN | 30d overdue |
| 18209395 | Systems for Removing Sludge from or Distributing Fluids in Sludge or Waste Collection Vessels | ROYCE, LIAM A | 69d |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18098583 | APPARATUS FOR PREVENTING IMPURITIES IN A WASHING FLUID FROM CLOGGING AN UNDERDRAIN AND METHODS FOR PREVENTING CLOGGING OF THE UNDERDRAIN AND/OR MONITORING THE APPARATUS | BERGNER, ERIN FLANAGAN | 30d overdue |
| 18209395 | Systems for Removing Sludge from or Distributing Fluids in Sludge or Waste Collection Vessels | ROYCE, LIAM A | 69d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1777 | 1 |
| 1713 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18209395 | Systems for Removing Sludge from or Distributing Fluids in Sludge or Waste Collection Vessels | ROYCE, LIAM A | 1777 | §103§112Other | Non-Final OA | 69d | Pending | Jun 13, 2023 |
| 18098583 | APPARATUS FOR PREVENTING IMPURITIES IN A WASHING FLUID FROM CLOGGING AN UNDERDRAIN AND METHODS FOR PREVENTING CLOGGING OF THE UNDERDRAIN AND/OR MONITORING THE APPARATUS | BERGNER, ERIN FLANAGAN | 1713 | §102§103§112 | Final Rejection | 30d overdue | Pending | Jan 18, 2023 |
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