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 • 7 patents granted in the last 365 days
Swagelok Company is currently addressing 3 pending office actions within the Chemistry & Materials technology area. These actions are distributed across 2 distinct art units, showing a focused technical scope for the active portfolio. The involvement of 3 distinct examiners indicates that each pending application is being reviewed by a different individual, which may lead to varying prosecution timelines and requirements across the company's filings.
TABASSOM TADAYYON ESLAMI is identified as the busiest examiner for the company, though they are currently responsible for only 1 pending office action. This distribution shows that no single examiner holds a majority of the active workload, as the total pending actions are spread among the various examiners. For the applicant, this necessitates managing multiple independent examiner relationships simultaneously rather than focusing on a single point of contact within the USPTO. Each matter will likely require a tailored approach based on the specific examiner's past behavior and art unit trends.
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 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| TADAYYON ESLAMI, TABASSOM | 1 | 49.5% | +26.5% |
| FREEMAN, JOHN D | 1 | 45.9% | +6.8% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18529138 | ACTIVATION OF SELF-PASSIVATING METALS USING REAGENT COATINGS FOR LOW TEMPERATURE NITROCARBURIZATION | FREEMAN, JOHN D | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18868808 | LASER-ASSISTED REAGENT ACTIVATION AND PROPERTY MODIFICATION OF SELF-PASSIVATING METALS | TADAYYON ESLAMI, TABASSOM | 9d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1718 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18868808 | LASER-ASSISTED REAGENT ACTIVATION AND PROPERTY MODIFICATION OF SELF-PASSIVATING METALS | TADAYYON ESLAMI, TABASSOM | 1718 | §103 | Final Rejection | 9d | Pending | Nov 25, 2024 |
| 18529138 | ACTIVATION OF SELF-PASSIVATING METALS USING REAGENT COATINGS FOR LOW TEMPERATURE NITROCARBURIZATION | FREEMAN, JOHN D | — | §102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 05, 2023 |
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