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
Sdc Technologies Inc. currently manages 1 pending office action in the Chemistry & Materials technology area. This action is assigned to 1 distinct examiner and art unit. Patrick Dennis Niland is the busiest examiner for the portfolio, overseeing the pending office action.
The company's current prosecution is limited to the 1 pending office action, indicating a focused approach in the chemistry sector. The involvement of the distinct art unit and examiner suggests that the company's immediate patent goals are tied to the examination by Patrick Dennis Niland.
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 |
|---|---|
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| NILAND, PATRICK DENNIS | 1 | 63.7% | -5.1% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17492755 | RADICAL CURABLE ANTI-FOG COATINGS | NILAND, PATRICK DENNIS | 31d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1762 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17492755 | RADICAL CURABLE ANTI-FOG COATINGS | NILAND, PATRICK DENNIS | 1762 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 31d overdue | Pending | Oct 04, 2021 |
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