Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals • Chemistry & Materials
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 3 patents granted in the last 365 days
Saint-Gobain operates in the Chemistry & Materials technology area. The company currently has 2 pending office actions. These 2 pending office actions are spread across 2 distinct examiners, which indicates a diversified prosecution workload. The pending matters are located in 2 distinct art units, suggesting that the company's Chemistry & Materials innovations are being evaluated by different technical teams within the patent office.
DERUSSO, JOHN J is the busiest examiner, with 1 busiest examiner pending office action assigned. With 2 distinct examiners each handling 1 busiest examiner pending office action, the workload is balanced. The company must manage two separate prosecution tracks across 2 distinct art units. This requires a strategy that accounts for the different technical standards and examiner preferences of both DERUSSO, JOHN J and the other assigned examiner in the Chemistry & Materials field.
The presence of 2 pending office actions across 2 distinct art units increases the administrative complexity of the portfolio. Practitioners must ensure consistency in arguments across different technical groups while addressing the specific requirements of each examiner. The success of the portfolio depends on the resolution of the 1 busiest examiner pending office action under DERUSSO, JOHN J and the other active matter. This distributed structure requires careful coordination to maintain a unified prosecution strategy.
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 |
|---|---|
| §101 + other | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| DERUSSO, JOHN J | 1 | 80.4% | +14.0% |
| SEREBOFF, NEAL | 1 | 28.2% | +33.3% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18855918 | METHOD FOR RECYCLING MINERAL WOOL MATERIAL | DERUSSO, JOHN J | — |
| 17999900 | DETERMINING AN AIRBORNE AND/OR AEROSOL PATHOGEN RISK EXPOSURE | SEREBOFF, NEAL | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18855918 | METHOD FOR RECYCLING MINERAL WOOL MATERIAL | DERUSSO, JOHN J | — |
| 17999900 | DETERMINING AN AIRBORNE AND/OR AEROSOL PATHOGEN RISK EXPOSURE | SEREBOFF, NEAL | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1744 | 1 |
| 1685 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18855918 | METHOD FOR RECYCLING MINERAL WOOL MATERIAL | DERUSSO, JOHN J | 1744 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 10, 2024 |
| 17999900 | DETERMINING AN AIRBORNE AND/OR AEROSOL PATHOGEN RISK EXPOSURE | SEREBOFF, NEAL | 1685 | §101§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 25, 2022 |
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