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
Rtfact Brands currently has 1 pending office action in the Chemistry & Materials technology area. This action is handled by 1 distinct examiner and is situated within 1 distinct art unit. The company's current patent prosecution is concentrated in a single technical division of the USPTO. This suggests a highly focused technical scope for the company's current filings, allowing for a more targeted prosecution strategy within a single specialized unit.
MATZEK, MATTHEW D is the busiest examiner for this portfolio, with 1 pending office action. This single action accounts for the entirety of the pending matters for the company. With only 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit, the prosecution process is centralized, with the outcome of the pending action depending on a single examiner's review. Practitioners should focus on the specific examination history of MATZEK, MATTHEW D to better understand the likely trajectory of this pending action.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| MATZEK, MATTHEW D | 1 | 46.3% | +36.8% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18030503 | Biodegradable Cork Fabric | MATZEK, MATTHEW D | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18030503 | Biodegradable Cork Fabric | MATZEK, MATTHEW D | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1786 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18030503 | Biodegradable Cork Fabric | MATZEK, MATTHEW D | 1786 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 06, 2023 |
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