Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Sulfur Chemical Laboratory, Inc. has 2 pending office actions in the Chemistry & Materials technology area. These actions are distributed among 2 distinct examiners and are located in 2 distinct art units. This distribution indicates that the pending matters involve different technical sub-fields or administrative groups. Such a spread requires the applicant to manage 2 distinct examiners across these 2 distinct art units.
The busiest examiner, PATWARDHAN, ABHISHEK A, is responsible for 1 pending office action. This accounts for 1 of the 2 total pending office actions for the company. With 2 distinct examiners and 2 distinct art units, each of the 2 pending office actions is being examined in a unique environment. This structure suggests that the company's current filings in Chemistry & Materials are diverse enough to require separate technical reviews. The presence of 1 pending action under the busiest examiner reflects a balanced workload across the 2 distinct examiners.
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 | 2 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| PATWARDHAN, ABHISHEK A | 1 | 73.9% | +13.1% |
| STANLEY, JANE L | 1 | 58.4% | +29.5% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18270067 | COMPOUND, BONDING AGENT, BONDED BODY, PRINTED CIRCUIT BOARD, AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING BONDED BODY | PATWARDHAN, ABHISHEK A | 76d |
| 17695201 | THERMALLY CONDUCTIVE SILICONE COMPOSITION, SHEET USING THE SAME, AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING THE SHEET | STANLEY, JANE L | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1746 | 1 |
| 1767 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18270067 | COMPOUND, BONDING AGENT, BONDED BODY, PRINTED CIRCUIT BOARD, AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING BONDED BODY | PATWARDHAN, ABHISHEK A | 1746 | §103 | Final Rejection | 76d | Pending | Jan 05, 2024 |
| 17695201 | THERMALLY CONDUCTIVE SILICONE COMPOSITION, SHEET USING THE SAME, AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING THE SHEET | STANLEY, JANE L | 1767 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 15, 2022 |
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