Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
2 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Sitration Inc. has 2 pending office actions in the Chemistry & Materials technology area. Both actions are located within 1 distinct art unit, indicating a concentrated examination environment for the company's material science innovations. This setup in 1 distinct art unit allows for a consistent administrative context for the pending applications. With 2 pending office actions active, the company maintains a focused presence in this technical sector.
ERIC J. MCCULLOUGH is the sole 1 distinct examiner for the portfolio, handling 2 pending office actions. This concentration under 1 busiest examiner allows for a unified prosecution strategy across the company's active Chemistry & Materials filings. Because ERIC J. MCCULLOUGH is responsible for both of the 2 pending office actions, practitioners can maintain a consistent technical dialogue with the examiner. This examiner continuity should be leveraged to streamline the resolution of the 2 pending office actions. The role of ERIC J. MCCULLOUGH as the busiest examiner for 2 pending office actions centralizes the company's patent office interactions.
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 |
|---|---|
| §103 only | 2 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| MCCULLOUGH, ERIC J. | 2 | 31.8% | +43.4% |
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 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18671586 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ELECTRICALLY CONDUCTIVE MEMBRANE SEPARATION | MCCULLOUGH, ERIC J. | 42d overdue |
| 18987855 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ELECTRICALLY CONDUCTIVE MEMBRANE SEPARATION | MCCULLOUGH, ERIC J. | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1773 | 2 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18987855 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ELECTRICALLY CONDUCTIVE MEMBRANE SEPARATION | MCCULLOUGH, ERIC J. | 1773 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Dec 19, 2024 |
| 18671586 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ELECTRICALLY CONDUCTIVE MEMBRANE SEPARATION | MCCULLOUGH, ERIC J. | 1773 | §103 | Final Rejection | 42d overdue | Pending | May 22, 2024 |
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