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
Sphere Drones Holdings Pty Ltd. currently manages 1 pending office action within the Chemistry & Materials technology area. This matter is distributed across 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit. The involvement of 1 distinct art unit indicates the technological scope of the company's current patent applications. Practitioners should note that the pending workload is handled by 1 distinct examiner, which defines the coordination of prosecution strategies across the portfolio.
MALLEY JR., DANIEL PATRICK is identified as the busiest examiner for Sphere Drones Holdings Pty Ltd., currently overseeing 1 pending office action. As MALLEY JR., DANIEL PATRICK is responsible for 1 pending office action, this individual represents a point of contact for the company's interactions with the patent office. The distribution of the workload among the 1 distinct examiner indicates how the company's Chemistry & Materials filings are being processed. Practitioners should monitor the 1 distinct art unit for updates on the pending prosecution.
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) | 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% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18926714 | DRONE SYSTEM | MALLEY JR., DANIEL PATRICK | 16d overdue |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18926714 | DRONE SYSTEM | MALLEY JR., DANIEL PATRICK | 16d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1726 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18926714 | DRONE SYSTEM | MALLEY JR., DANIEL PATRICK | 1726 | §102§103§112 | Final Rejection | 16d overdue | Pending | Oct 25, 2024 |
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