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 • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Seek Labs Inc. currently has 1 pending office action within the Chemistry & Materials technology area. This 1 pending office action represents the entire active prosecution profile for the company at this time. The data indicates that 1 distinct examiner is overseeing the matter, which centralizes the decision-making process for the portfolio's current standing. Additionally, the involvement of only 1 distinct art unit confirms that the legal and technical focus is limited to a specific niche within the chemistry field.
The busiest examiner for Seek Labs Inc. is BORTOLI, JONATHAN, who holds 1 busiest examiner pending office action. Because this examiner is the only one listed for the active workload, their specific examination style and history will be the determining factor for the company's immediate success. For a practitioner, this means that prosecution efforts can be targeted, as there are no other examiners or art units to consider. The concentration of 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit for the pending matter simplifies the management of the portfolio but increases the importance of a successful interaction with this specific individual.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| BORTOLI, JONATHAN | 1 | 76.3% | +41.2% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18507807 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR NUCLEIC ACID ISOLATION | BORTOLI, JONATHAN | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18507807 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR NUCLEIC ACID ISOLATION | BORTOLI, JONATHAN | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1797 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18507807 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR NUCLEIC ACID ISOLATION | BORTOLI, JONATHAN | 1797 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 13, 2023 |
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