Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Signal Engineering Consulting LLC has 1 pending office action in the Chemistry & Materials technology area. This matter is being handled by a distinct examiner within a distinct art unit, representing a focused prosecution profile. The presence of the art unit suggests that the current legal strategy is concentrated within a specific technical niche of the Chemistry & Materials field.
FISCHER, JUSTIN R is the busiest examiner with 1 pending office action. Because this action constitutes the entirety of the pending workload, the company's immediate patent outcomes depend on this specific examiner. With a distinct examiner and the pending office action, there is no internal baseline for comparison within the current portfolio. Practitioners must focus on the requirements of Fischer and the standards of the art unit to advance this application. Success in this matter will depend on a thorough understanding of the examiner's specific concerns within this technical field.
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 (50%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 1 (50%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| AHMED, SHEEBA | 1 | 80.7% | +14.4% |
| FISCHER, JUSTIN R | 1 | 44.3% | +2.3% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18989172 | LATEX COMPOUNDS WITH ENHANCED WATER BARRIER PROTECTION | AHMED, SHEEBA | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18989172 | LATEX COMPOUNDS WITH ENHANCED WATER BARRIER PROTECTION | AHMED, SHEEBA | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1787 | 1 |
| 1749 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18989172 | LATEX COMPOUNDS WITH ENHANCED WATER BARRIER PROTECTION | AHMED, SHEEBA | 1787 | §103DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 20, 2024 |
| 18932769 | LATEX COMPOUNDS WITH ENHANCED WATER BARRIER PROTECTION | FISCHER, JUSTIN R | 1749 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 31, 2024 |
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