Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
2 pending office actions • 1 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 6 patents granted in the last 365 days
Saban Ventures Pty Limited is active in the Chemistry & Materials technology area with 2 pending office actions currently under review. The company's prosecution efforts involve 2 distinct examiners. This split suggests that the company is engaging with different perspectives at the USPTO simultaneously. However, all activity is housed within 1 distinct art unit, pointing to a consistent technical focus across the pending applications. This concentration in a single art unit provides a stable administrative environment for the company's current filings.
The busiest examiner for this portfolio is SEGED, NEBYATE SAMUEL, who is responsible for 1 pending office action. Given that there are 2 pending office actions total, each of the 2 distinct examiners is managing a single case. This arrangement means that the company's success in this technology area is not dependent on a single examiner but is spread across two. The concentration in 1 distinct art unit ensures that the prosecution remains within a specific administrative framework despite the involvement of multiple examiners. Practitioners should monitor how these 2 distinct examiners apply the standards of their shared art unit to the company's different applications.
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 | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| SEGED, NEBYATE SAMUEL | 1 | 31.3% | +49.3% |
| LEE, AHAM NMN | 1 | 46.3% | +54.5% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18255621 | ENVIRONMENTAL DECONTAMINATION | SEGED, NEBYATE SAMUEL | 14d |
| 18001293 | A Device for Retaining an Object in a Sterilization/Disinfection Apparatus | LEE, AHAM NMN | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1758 | 2 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18255621 | ENVIRONMENTAL DECONTAMINATION | SEGED, NEBYATE SAMUEL | 1758 | §103 | Final Rejection | 14d | Pending | Jun 02, 2023 |
| 18001293 | A Device for Retaining an Object in a Sterilization/Disinfection Apparatus | LEE, AHAM NMN | 1758 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 09, 2022 |
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