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
Seauciel LLC is currently managing 1 pending office action within the Chemistry & Materials technology area. This prosecution activity is assigned to 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit. The busiest examiner, RIETH, STEPHEN EDWARD, is responsible for 1 busiest examiner pending office action.
The 1 distinct art unit is the group currently evaluating the company's applications. Because the 1 distinct examiner is handling the 1 pending office action, the prosecution outcome depends on the evaluation of that individual. Practitioners should monitor whether future filings move into additional art units beyond the 1 distinct art unit currently assigned. The 1 busiest examiner pending office action constitutes the active prosecution workload for the portfolio and the 1 pending office action.
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 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| RIETH, STEPHEN EDWARD | 1 | 45.8% | +32.9% |
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 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18020778 | RECYCLING SYSTEM AND PROCESS USING SUBCRITICAL AND/OR SUPERCRITICAL WATER | RIETH, STEPHEN EDWARD | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1759 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18020778 | RECYCLING SYSTEM AND PROCESS USING SUBCRITICAL AND/OR SUPERCRITICAL WATER | RIETH, STEPHEN EDWARD | 1759 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Feb 10, 2023 |
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