Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
3 pending office actions • 3 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 2 patents granted in the last 365 days
Simplifyber Inc. currently has 3 pending office actions within the Chemistry & Materials technology area. These actions are distributed across 3 distinct examiners and the distinct art units. This distribution indicates a prosecution landscape where each pending matter is being handled by a different administrative group. Thompson, Camie S is the busiest examiner for the portfolio, managing 1 pending office action.
Because each of the distinct examiners holds a pending office action, the workload is distributed. This arrangement requires the company to navigate the specific standards and preferences of the 3 distinct art units simultaneously. The presence of the pending office actions across the examiners in the Chemistry & Materials area suggests that each filing may involve a different specialized sub-field. Practitioners should prepare for separate examination tracks, as no actions share the same examiner. The 1 pending office action under Thompson, Camie S is part of this broader effort.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 2 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 |
|---|---|
| §103 only | 1 (33%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 1 (33%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (33%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| THOMPSON, CAMIE S | 1 | 73.8% | +10.4% |
| MINSKEY, JACOB T | 1 | 69.3% | +33.1% |
| CHIDIAC, NICHOLAS J | 1 | 54.4% | +34.6% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18646411 | UNITARY SHAPED SOFT GOODS ARTICLE HAVING VARIABLE PHYSICAL CHARACTERISTICS BETWEEN DIFFERENT REGIONS | THOMPSON, CAMIE S | 77d 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 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18646411 | UNITARY SHAPED SOFT GOODS ARTICLE HAVING VARIABLE PHYSICAL CHARACTERISTICS BETWEEN DIFFERENT REGIONS | THOMPSON, CAMIE S | 77d overdue |
| 18511352 | FORMING A CONTOURED FINISHED SOFT GOOD FROM A FLATTER FIBROUS INTERMEDIATE PART | CHIDIAC, NICHOLAS J | 43d overdue |
| 18511469 | MAKING SOFT GOODS FROM A SYSTEM OF MOLDING AND PRESSING USING A SLURRY CONTAINING FIBERS | MINSKEY, JACOB T | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1786 | 1 |
| 1748 | 1 |
| 1744 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18646411 | UNITARY SHAPED SOFT GOODS ARTICLE HAVING VARIABLE PHYSICAL CHARACTERISTICS BETWEEN DIFFERENT REGIONS | THOMPSON, CAMIE S | 1786 | §102§103§112 | Final Rejection | 77d overdue | Pending | Apr 25, 2024 |
| 18511469 | MAKING SOFT GOODS FROM A SYSTEM OF MOLDING AND PRESSING USING A SLURRY CONTAINING FIBERS | MINSKEY, JACOB T | 1748 | §103DP | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Nov 16, 2023 |
| 18511352 | FORMING A CONTOURED FINISHED SOFT GOOD FROM A FLATTER FIBROUS INTERMEDIATE PART | CHIDIAC, NICHOLAS J | 1744 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 43d overdue | Pending | Nov 16, 2023 |
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