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
Sad Ip Holdings LLC has 1 pending office action currently active at the patent office. This workload is handled by 1 distinct examiner working within 1 distinct art unit. This suggests a very narrow or early-stage prosecution footprint for the company, with all active work residing in a single technical and administrative location at the USPTO.
The busiest examiner identified in the portfolio is LE, TOBEY CHOU, who is handling 1 pending office action. This represents the total volume of active matters for the company. The lack of multiple examiners indicates that the company's current strategy is focused on a single point of contact within the USPTO.
Practitioners managing this portfolio must navigate the specific requirements of LE, TOBEY CHOU to resolve the current active matter. The presence of 1 distinct art unit allows the legal team to focus its technical arguments on the specific standards of that group. This centralized structure means that the success of the portfolio is currently dependent on a single professional relationship.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| LE, TOBEY CHOU | 1 | 27.8% | +51.9% |
| FELTON, MICHAEL J | 1 | 59.9% | +14.1% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18415417 | DEVICES AND METHODS FOR FRICTIONLESS COMPACTION OF SMOKABLE PRODUCTS | LE, TOBEY CHOU | — |
| 17876902 | DEVICES AND METHODS FOR PRE-ROLLED SMOKING TUBES | FELTON, MICHAEL J | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18415417 | DEVICES AND METHODS FOR FRICTIONLESS COMPACTION OF SMOKABLE PRODUCTS | LE, TOBEY CHOU | — |
| 17876902 | DEVICES AND METHODS FOR PRE-ROLLED SMOKING TUBES | FELTON, MICHAEL J | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 4100 | 1 |
| 1747 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18415417 | DEVICES AND METHODS FOR FRICTIONLESS COMPACTION OF SMOKABLE PRODUCTS | LE, TOBEY CHOU | 4100 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jan 17, 2024 |
| 17876902 | DEVICES AND METHODS FOR PRE-ROLLED SMOKING TUBES | FELTON, MICHAEL J | 1747 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 29, 2022 |
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