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
Spherical Ip LLC operates a company patent portfolio within the Chemistry & Materials technology area. The data shows 1 pending office action. This activity is handled by 1 distinct examiner. Furthermore, the prosecution is conducted within 1 distinct art unit. This indicates that the current legal efforts are focused on a specific technical area reviewed by 1 group at the USPTO. The concentration of the portfolio suggests that the technical subject matter is highly specific.
The busiest examiner for this portfolio is LUK, EMMANUEL S. This examiner is assigned 1 pending office action. Because the total count of pending office actions is 1, this examiner oversees the active workload. Practitioners should focus on the specific examination patterns of the 1 distinct examiner and the 1 distinct art unit. The status of the portfolio under LUK, EMMANUEL S means that the outcome of the 1 pending office action is a central factor in the company prosecution status.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| LUK, EMMANUEL S | 1 | 71.5% | +26.3% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 13374441 | System and method for creating a venturi effect within an orifice | LUK, EMMANUEL S | 49d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1744 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 13374441 | System and method for creating a venturi effect within an orifice | LUK, EMMANUEL S | 1744 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 49d overdue | Pending | Dec 29, 2011 |
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