Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Chemistry & Materials • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
3 pending office actions • 2 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 2 patents granted in the last 365 days
Sanford L.P. is currently handling 3 pending office actions within the Chemistry & Materials technology area. These 3 pending office actions are assigned to 3 distinct examiners, with WANG, HAOPENG serving as the busiest examiner with 1 pending action. This distribution ensures that each application receives a unique review from a different examiner.
The prosecution is spread across 2 distinct art units, suggesting some technical variety within the Chemistry & Materials portfolio. While there are 3 distinct examiners, the concentration in 2 distinct art units means that some examiners may be operating under similar unit-specific guidelines. This can provide the applicant with a more consistent understanding of the patentability standards within those units.
With those matters and those examiners, the company avoids the risk of a single examiner bottleneck. The involvement of 2 distinct art units requires the applicant to be mindful of the different technical focuses of each unit. Practitioners should analyze the feedback from all examiners to identify common themes across the 3 pending office actions. WANG, HAOPENG manages 1 pending action, representing one of the three unique paths.
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 (33%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (67%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| WANG, HAOPENG | 1 | — | — |
| COOLEY, CHARLES E | 1 | 79.0% | +15.2% |
| OLIVER, BRADLEY S | 1 | 60.9% | +14.3% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18295035 | STIRRERS FOR CURABLE COMPOSITIONS | COOLEY, CHARLES E | 160d overdue |
| 18439139 | OPAQUE INK COMPOSITION | WANG, HAOPENG | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18295035 | STIRRERS FOR CURABLE COMPOSITIONS | COOLEY, CHARLES E | 160d overdue |
| 17995528 | WRITING INSTRUMENTS AND ASSOCIATED NIB ASSEMBLIES | OLIVER, BRADLEY S | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1774 | 1 |
| 3754 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18439139 | OPAQUE INK COMPOSITION | WANG, HAOPENG | — | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 12, 2024 |
| 18295035 | STIRRERS FOR CURABLE COMPOSITIONS | COOLEY, CHARLES E | 1774 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | 160d overdue | Pending | Apr 03, 2023 |
| 17995528 | WRITING INSTRUMENTS AND ASSOCIATED NIB ASSEMBLIES | OLIVER, BRADLEY S | 3754 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Oct 05, 2022 |
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