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
Rovalma S A has 2 pending office actions in the Chemistry & Materials technology area. These actions are distributed across 2 distinct examiners and 2 distinct art units. This spread indicates that the company's current applications are being reviewed by different specialists in separate units. For a practitioner, this suggests that the company's materials technology covers multiple sub-categories within the chemistry field, requiring a strategy that addresses the specific standards of different art units.
HEVEY, JOHN A is the busiest examiner for the portfolio, with 1 pending office action. Because there are 2 pending office actions in total, and 2 distinct examiners, the busiest examiner is responsible for 1 action. The presence of distinct art units for the actions requires a prosecution strategy that accounts for the individual approaches of different examiners. This distribution ensures that each application is evaluated for its specific technical merits by an examiner specialized in the relevant art unit.
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 | 1 (50%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| HEVEY, JOHN A | 1 | 61.6% | +19.9% |
| CARPENTER, JOSHUA S | 1 | 51.9% | +36.9% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18424271 | LONG DURABILITY HIGH PERFORMANCE STEEL FOR STRUCTURAL, MACHINE AND TOOLING APPLICATIONS | HEVEY, JOHN 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17801169 | METHOD FOR THE OBTAINING OF COST EFFECTIVE GEOMETRICALLY COMPLEX PIECES | CARPENTER, JOSHUA S | 28d |
| 18424271 | LONG DURABILITY HIGH PERFORMANCE STEEL FOR STRUCTURAL, MACHINE AND TOOLING APPLICATIONS | HEVEY, JOHN A | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1735 | 1 |
| 1733 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18424271 | LONG DURABILITY HIGH PERFORMANCE STEEL FOR STRUCTURAL, MACHINE AND TOOLING APPLICATIONS | HEVEY, JOHN A | 1735 | §102§103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jan 26, 2024 |
| 17801169 | METHOD FOR THE OBTAINING OF COST EFFECTIVE GEOMETRICALLY COMPLEX PIECES | CARPENTER, JOSHUA S | 1733 | §103 | Final Rejection | 28d | Pending | Aug 19, 2022 |
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