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
Southern Beams Builds Inc. has 1 pending office action in the Chemistry & Materials technology area. This case is being prosecuted in 1 distinct art unit. The busiest examiner is MALLEY JR., DANIEL PATRICK, who is handling the 1 pending office action. There is 1 distinct examiner assigned to the portfolio.
The concentration of the 1 pending office action in 1 distinct art unit with 1 distinct examiner allows for a highly targeted prosecution strategy. Practitioners should focus on the specific examination style of MALLEY JR., DANIEL PATRICK within the Chemistry & Materials sector. Because this 1 pending office action is the only active matter, its outcome will define the company's current success at the patent office. The single examiner and single art unit structure simplifies the management of the company's intellectual property assets.
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 |
|---|---|
| No statute on record | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| MALLEY JR., DANIEL PATRICK | 1 | 56.5% | +45.7% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18922732 | DEVICE AND METHODS FOR ARTICULATING SOLAR PHOTOVOLTAIC ARRAYS WITH BALANCED HORIZONTAL SCISSOR CANTILEVER BEAMS | MALLEY JR., DANIEL PATRICK | 12d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1726 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18922732 | DEVICE AND METHODS FOR ARTICULATING SOLAR PHOTOVOLTAIC ARRAYS WITH BALANCED HORIZONTAL SCISSOR CANTILEVER BEAMS | MALLEY JR., DANIEL PATRICK | 1726 | Other | Non-Final OA | 12d | Pending | Oct 22, 2024 |
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