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
Sinclair Systems International LLC has 1 pending office action in the Chemistry & Materials technology area. The portfolio's current activity involves 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit, representing a consolidated prosecution profile. This focus within 1 distinct art unit indicates that the company's active patent applications are technically related. Having 1 pending office action allows for a streamlined prosecution process with a single set of deadlines to manage.
The busiest examiner, KOLB, KATARZYNA I, holds 1 busiest examiner pending office action. Because the total number of pending office actions is 1, this examiner manages all of the company's current prosecution requirements. The fact that KOLB, KATARZYNA I is the only examiner assigned to the portfolio's 1 pending office action means that the company's current patent strategy is focused on a single point of contact. Practitioners should note that there are no other distinct examiners or art units involved, making the specific examination style of this individual the primary factor in the portfolio's current progress.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| KOLB, KATARZYNA I | 1 | 45.2% | +15.9% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17886817 | Home Compostable Label | KOLB, KATARZYNA I | 15d |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17886817 | Home Compostable Label | KOLB, KATARZYNA I | 15d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1767 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17886817 | Home Compostable Label | KOLB, KATARZYNA I | 1767 | §102§103§112 | Final Rejection | 15d | Pending | Aug 12, 2022 |
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