Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Chemistry & Materials • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
5 pending office actions • 5 art units • 5 examiners • 0 of 5 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 2 patents granted in the last 365 days
Silcotek Corp. currently manages 5 pending office actions within the Chemistry & Materials technology area. This portfolio is distributed across 5 distinct examiners and 5 distinct art units, indicating a broad spread of examination oversight. The workload is evenly distributed, as the busiest examiner, MICHAEL P RODRIGUEZ, is responsible for only 1 pending office action.
Practitioners should note the high ratio of distinct art units to pending actions. With 5 distinct art units for 5 pending office actions, the company faces a diverse range of examination standards. This lack of concentration suggests that prosecution strategies may need to be tailored individually for each application rather than relying on trends from a single art unit.
The presence of 5 distinct examiners for 5 pending actions further reinforces this decentralized prosecution environment. MICHAEL P RODRIGUEZ handles 1 pending office action, matching the workload of other examiners in the portfolio. This distribution minimizes the impact of any single examiner's specific tendencies on the overall portfolio. Such a structure requires a high degree of coordination to ensure that technical arguments remain consistent across different examiners and art units.
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) | 5 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| RODRIGUEZ, MICHAEL P | 1 | 73.2% | +29.4% |
| LA VILLA, MICHAEL EUGENE | 1 | 75.7% | +17.9% |
| SCHERMERHORN, JON | 1 | 58.1% | +32.8% |
| HERNANDEZ-KENNEY, JOSE | 1 | 54.6% | +22.8% |
| WORRELL, KEVIN | 1 | 12.5% | -3.1% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 5 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18706858 | PROCESS, COMPONENT, AND SYSTEM WITH AMORPHOUS SILICON-CONTAINING COATING EXPOSED TO A TEMPERATURE OF GREATER THAN 600 DEGREES CELSIUS | RODRIGUEZ, MICHAEL P | — |
| 18686127 | CHEMICAL VAPOR DEPOSITION PROCESS AND COATING | LA VILLA, MICHAEL EUGENE | — |
| 18018416 | HEAT EXCHANGER PROCESS | SCHERMERHORN, JON | — |
| 17330980 | FLUID CONTACT PROCESS, COATED ARTICLE, AND COATING PROCESS | HERNANDEZ-KENNEY, JOSE | — |
| 16249314 | SPOOLED ARRANGEMENT AND PROCESS OF PRODUCING A SPOOLED ARRANGEMENT | WORRELL, KEVIN | — |
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 4 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18706858 | PROCESS, COMPONENT, AND SYSTEM WITH AMORPHOUS SILICON-CONTAINING COATING EXPOSED TO A TEMPERATURE OF GREATER THAN 600 DEGREES CELSIUS | RODRIGUEZ, MICHAEL P | — |
| 18686127 | CHEMICAL VAPOR DEPOSITION PROCESS AND COATING | LA VILLA, MICHAEL EUGENE | — |
| 18018416 | HEAT EXCHANGER PROCESS | SCHERMERHORN, JON | — |
| 17330980 | FLUID CONTACT PROCESS, COATED ARTICLE, AND COATING PROCESS | HERNANDEZ-KENNEY, JOSE | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1712 | 1 |
| 1784 | 1 |
| 3763 | 1 |
| 1717 | 1 |
| 1789 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18706858 | PROCESS, COMPONENT, AND SYSTEM WITH AMORPHOUS SILICON-CONTAINING COATING EXPOSED TO A TEMPERATURE OF GREATER THAN 600 DEGREES CELSIUS | RODRIGUEZ, MICHAEL P | 1712 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 02, 2024 |
| 18686127 | CHEMICAL VAPOR DEPOSITION PROCESS AND COATING | LA VILLA, MICHAEL EUGENE | 1784 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 23, 2024 |
| 18018416 | HEAT EXCHANGER PROCESS | SCHERMERHORN, JON | 3763 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jan 27, 2023 |
| 17330980 | FLUID CONTACT PROCESS, COATED ARTICLE, AND COATING PROCESS | HERNANDEZ-KENNEY, JOSE | 1717 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | May 26, 2021 |
| 16249314 | SPOOLED ARRANGEMENT AND PROCESS OF PRODUCING A SPOOLED ARRANGEMENT | WORRELL, KEVIN | 1789 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 16, 2019 |
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