Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Chemistry & Materials • Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 2 patents granted in the last 365 days
Stark Future S L currently has 2 pending office actions within the Chemistry & Materials technology area. These actions are distributed across 2 distinct examiners and 2 distinct art units. The busiest examiner for this portfolio is VO, JIMMY, who is responsible for 1 busiest examiner pending office action.
The presence of 2 distinct examiners for the 2 pending office actions means that each action is being handled by a different individual. This distribution requires the practitioner to manage separate prosecution tracks within the Chemistry & Materials area. Because there are 2 distinct art units, the applications are being reviewed under the technical standards of two different specialized groups.
With VO, JIMMY holding 1 busiest examiner pending office action, the workload is split between the 2 distinct examiners. The practitioner must address the specific feedback from 2 distinct examiners across 2 distinct art units. This structure indicates that the 2 pending office actions involve different technical or procedural contexts within the patent office.
The number of examiners and art units involved determines the administrative oversight required for these patent assets. Strategic efforts can be directed toward understanding the patterns of both examiners within this technology sector. Maintaining a dialogue with each examiner involved is a task for navigating the current prosecution phase.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 2 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 (50%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (50%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| VO, JIMMY | 1 | 73.6% | +21.9% |
| SHARMA, NABIN KUMAR | 1 | 54.7% | +56.6% |
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.
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 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17898698 | CHAIN TENSIONER DEVICE | SHARMA, NABIN KUMAR | 118d overdue |
| 17903205 | CASING FOR ELECTRIC BATTERY | VO, JIMMY | 28d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1723 | 1 |
| 3612 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17903205 | CASING FOR ELECTRIC BATTERY | VO, JIMMY | 1723 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 28d | Pending | Sep 06, 2022 |
| 17898698 | CHAIN TENSIONER DEVICE | SHARMA, NABIN KUMAR | 3612 | §103 | Final Rejection | 118d overdue | Pending | Aug 30, 2022 |
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