Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
2 pending office actions • 1 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Startool Inc. has 1 pending office action in its company patent portfolio. The prosecution of this matter is handled by 1 distinct examiner. Data shows that there are 0 distinct art units currently associated with the portfolio. This indicates the current pending matter has not been assigned to a specific art unit in the provided data set, which may occur during certain transitional phases of examination.
The busiest examiner for this company is GUMP, MICHAEL ANTHONY. This examiner is responsible for 1 pending office action. Since the total count of pending actions is 1, this individual is the only examiner currently assigned to the company's pending work. Practitioners can focus their efforts on the specific prosecution patterns of GUMP, MICHAEL ANTHONY to anticipate potential hurdles.
The absence of distinct art units, recorded as 0, suggests a unique administrative status for the pending application. With only 1 pending office action to manage, the company faces a low volume of immediate USPTO deadlines. Monitoring the 1 distinct examiner remains the most effective way to track the progress of this portfolio toward issuance or final resolution.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| BELL, SPENCER E | 1 | 63.3% | +12.6% |
| GUMP, MICHAEL ANTHONY | 1 | 63.7% | +51.5% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18908578 | NAIL BIT CARE SYSTEM | BELL, SPENCER E | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18908578 | NAIL BIT CARE SYSTEM | BELL, SPENCER E | — |
| 18771041 | DEVICE AND METHOD FOR FACILITATING THE SHARPENING OF NAIL NIPPERS | GUMP, MICHAEL ANTHONY | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1711 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18908578 | NAIL BIT CARE SYSTEM | BELL, SPENCER E | 1711 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 07, 2024 |
| 18771041 | DEVICE AND METHOD FOR FACILITATING THE SHARPENING OF NAIL NIPPERS | GUMP, MICHAEL ANTHONY | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 12, 2024 |
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