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 • 2 patents granted in the last 365 days
Selig Sealing Products Inc. has 1 pending office action in the Chemistry & Materials technology area. This matter is under the review of 1 distinct examiner, KESSLER JR, THOMAS JOSEPH, who is the busiest examiner for the company. The prosecution is currently limited to 1 distinct art unit, ensuring a unified technical environment for the case. KESSLER JR, THOMAS JOSEPH is managing the 1 busiest examiner pending action on file.
The presence of 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit suggests that the company is currently focusing its efforts on a specific chemical or material innovation. Because there is only 1 pending office action, the legal team can dedicate its full attention to the requirements set by KESSLER JR, THOMAS JOSEPH. This centralized 1 busiest examiner pending status minimizes the administrative overhead associated with broader portfolios. The 1 distinct art unit involved provides a stable procedural framework for the duration of the prosecution of the 1 pending office action.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| KESSLER JR, THOMAS JOSEPH | 1 | 45.9% | +47.5% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17779324 | Inverted Tabbed Induction Liner | KESSLER JR, THOMAS JOSEPH | 78d overdue |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17779324 | Inverted Tabbed Induction Liner | KESSLER JR, THOMAS JOSEPH | 78d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1782 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17779324 | Inverted Tabbed Induction Liner | KESSLER JR, THOMAS JOSEPH | 1782 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | 78d overdue | Pending | May 24, 2022 |
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