Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Chemistry & Materials • Computing & Software
3 pending office actions • 3 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Smartech The Industry Pivot Ltd. has 2 pending office actions in the Computing & Software technology area. These actions are spread across 2 distinct art units, showing that the company's current patenting activity involves multiple technical specialties within the patent office. The prosecution is handled by 2 distinct examiners, which means the company is interacting with different individuals for each of its pending matters. This distribution suggests a diversified prosecution environment where the company must address the specific requirements of different technical divisions simultaneously.
KAKARLA, BHASKAR is identified as the busiest examiner for the company, with 1 pending office action currently assigned. This examiner is responsible for a portion of the total 2 pending office actions for the portfolio. The distribution of the pending actions across the distinct examiners and 2 distinct art units requires the company to manage various examiner expectations. For practitioners, this variety means that the success of the portfolio in the Computing & Software sector depends on navigating multiple administrative paths at once.
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 (67%) |
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| KAKARLA, BHASKAR | 1 | 33.3% | +0.0% |
| GRAHAM, ANDREW D | 1 | 59.7% | +22.8% |
| PAGE, HANA C | 1 | 60.3% | +32.8% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18567122 | MANAGEMENT OF ENGINEERED WOOD PRODUCT MANUFACTURE | KAKARLA, BHASKAR | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18250226 | IMPROVED USE OF MDI IN ENGINEERED WOOD PRODUCTS | GRAHAM, ANDREW D | — |
| 18250227 | CONTROLLED TEMPERATURE PRE-TREATMENT APPLICATION OF ADHESIVE RESIN IN ENGINEERED WOOD PRODUCTS | PAGE, HANA C | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2116 | 1 |
| 1742 | 1 |
| 1745 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18567122 | MANAGEMENT OF ENGINEERED WOOD PRODUCT MANUFACTURE | KAKARLA, BHASKAR | 2116 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Dec 05, 2023 |
| 18250226 | IMPROVED USE OF MDI IN ENGINEERED WOOD PRODUCTS | GRAHAM, ANDREW D | 1742 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 24, 2023 |
| 18250227 | CONTROLLED TEMPERATURE PRE-TREATMENT APPLICATION OF ADHESIVE RESIN IN ENGINEERED WOOD PRODUCTS | PAGE, HANA C | 1745 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 24, 2023 |
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