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 • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Rooftop Research LLC is engaged in the Chemistry & Materials technology area. The company's prosecution data shows 1 pending office action. This single action involves 1 distinct examiner and is categorized under 1 distinct art unit. The presence of 1 distinct art unit suggests that the company's current intellectual property efforts are focused on a specific chemical or material science niche. This narrow administrative scope simplifies the tracking of pending matters within the USPTO and allows for a direct legal approach.
The busiest examiner for Rooftop Research LLC is KITT, STEPHEN A, who is handling 1 busiest examiner pending office action. This individual manages the 1 pending office action that constitutes the company's entire current workload. For the patent practitioner, this means that the prosecution success for the current filings is tied directly to the review of KITT, STEPHEN A. The fact that 1 pending office action is the only active matter indicates a period of targeted patent activity. Success in this area requires a deep understanding of the specific preferences of the assigned examiner.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| KITT, STEPHEN A | 1 | 54.7% | +38.7% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 16784377 | Coating Applicator and Coating Application System | KITT, STEPHEN A | 73d 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 16784377 | Coating Applicator and Coating Application System | KITT, STEPHEN A | 73d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1717 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 16784377 | Coating Applicator and Coating Application System | KITT, STEPHEN A | 1717 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 73d overdue | Pending | Feb 07, 2020 |
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