Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
2 pending office actions • 1 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Soprema is managing a patent portfolio within the Chemistry & Materials technology area. There are currently 2 pending office actions across the portfolio, which are being handled by 2 distinct examiners. This ratio of actions to examiners suggests that the company's current filings are receiving independent reviews from different individuals at the patent office. Such a spread can help the applicant understand how different examiners interpret their core Chemistry & Materials technologies.
The prosecution activity is centralized within 1 distinct art unit, showing that the company's current patenting efforts are focused on a specific technical field. BHATIA, ANSHU is the busiest examiner for the portfolio, with 1 busiest examiner pending action. Given that there are 2 pending office actions in total, the workload is split evenly between the two examiners. Practitioners should note that while the technology is concentrated in one art unit, the prosecution strategy must account for the individual nuances of two different examiners.
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) | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| BHATIA, ANSHU | 1 | 84.2% | +17.2% |
| SORKIN, DAVID L | 1 | 67.4% | +12.8% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17920364 | REFINER, INSTALLATION AND METHOD FOR TREATING COMPOSITE PRODUCTS | SORKIN, DAVID L | 1d overdue |
| 18579494 | SPLASHGUARD DEVICE FOR A WHEELED VEHICLE AND ASSEMBLY COMPRISING SUCH A DEVICE | BHATIA, ANSHU | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17920364 | REFINER, INSTALLATION AND METHOD FOR TREATING COMPOSITE PRODUCTS | SORKIN, DAVID L | 1d overdue |
| 18579494 | SPLASHGUARD DEVICE FOR A WHEELED VEHICLE AND ASSEMBLY COMPRISING SUCH A DEVICE | BHATIA, ANSHU | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1774 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18579494 | SPLASHGUARD DEVICE FOR A WHEELED VEHICLE AND ASSEMBLY COMPRISING SUCH A DEVICE | BHATIA, ANSHU | — | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 15, 2024 |
| 17920364 | REFINER, INSTALLATION AND METHOD FOR TREATING COMPOSITE PRODUCTS | SORKIN, DAVID L | 1774 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 1d overdue | Pending | Oct 20, 2022 |
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