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
Southern Mills Inc. holds a patent portfolio within the Chemistry & Materials technology area. There is currently 1 pending office action associated with this company. The prosecution is being handled by a distinct examiner, which points to a specific and limited scope of current activity before the patent office. This focus suggests that the company is currently prioritizing a material science innovation.
The portfolio's active matters are situated within 1 distinct art unit. ULA CORINNA TAVARES-CROCKETT is the busiest examiner for Southern Mills Inc., with a pending office action under review. This examiner manages the company's entire pending workload, as the total count of pending office actions is also 1. This reflects a focused administrative path for the company's materials-related intellectual property, where the prosecution outcome is tied to the specific examination practices of an art unit and an examiner.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| TAVARES-CROCKETT, ULA CORINNA | 1 | 39.6% | +29.9% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18639495 | FLAME RESISTANT NONWOVEN FABRICS AND COMPOSITES AND GARMENTS MADE WITH SAME | TAVARES-CROCKETT, ULA CORINNA | 81d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1729 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18639495 | FLAME RESISTANT NONWOVEN FABRICS AND COMPOSITES AND GARMENTS MADE WITH SAME | TAVARES-CROCKETT, ULA CORINNA | 1729 | §103 | Final Rejection | 81d overdue | Pending | Apr 18, 2024 |
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