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 • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Sortology Ltd. currently has 1 pending office action within the Chemistry & Materials technology area. This single active matter is assigned to 1 distinct examiner, indicating a concentrated prosecution profile for its current filings. The portfolio is also limited to 1 distinct art unit, which suggests that the company's current innovations fall under a specific technical classification. This structure simplifies the prosecution process by focusing on the requirements of a single art unit. Such a focused approach allows the company to dedicate its resources to a single active matter.
The busiest examiner for Sortology Ltd. is LEE, DOUGLAS, who is managing the 1 busiest examiner pending action. As the only examiner currently reviewing the company's work, LEE, DOUGLAS holds the entire active workload. For the applicant, this means that the success of the current prosecution depends on the specific interpretations and standards of this individual. The presence of 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit highlights a focused strategy for patent acquisition in the Chemistry & Materials sector. Practitioners should focus on the specific examination style of LEE, DOUGLAS.
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 | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| LEE, DOUGLAS | 1 | 45.3% | +13.7% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18289846 | METHOD FOR RECYCLING PLASTIC FILM | LEE, DOUGLAS | 14d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1711 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18289846 | METHOD FOR RECYCLING PLASTIC FILM | LEE, DOUGLAS | 1711 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 14d | Pending | Nov 07, 2023 |
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