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
SyncMOF, Inc. operates a company patent portfolio within the Chemistry & Materials technology area. There is currently 1 pending office action active for this portfolio. This action is assigned to 1 distinct examiner, which suggests a concentrated prosecution effort at this stage.
The portfolio's activity is restricted to 1 distinct art unit, aligning with the 1 distinct examiner assigned to the case. SHARON PREGLER is the busiest examiner identified in the data, currently managing 1 busiest examiner pending office action. As the total number of pending office actions is 1, SHARON PREGLER is responsible for all current examination tasks for the company.
For practitioners, this means that the prosecution strategy is focused on a single point of contact within the patent office. The presence of 1 distinct art unit indicates that the technical review is confined to one specific area of expertise. With 1 pending office action, the administrative complexity is low, and the interaction with SHARON PREGLER will be the primary factor in the portfolio's immediate progress.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| PREGLER, SHARON | 1 | 78.0% | +21.1% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17781242 | GAS TREATMENT SYSTEM, GAS TREATMENT METHOD AND CONTROL DEVICE | PREGLER, SHARON | 155d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1772 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17781242 | GAS TREATMENT SYSTEM, GAS TREATMENT METHOD AND CONTROL DEVICE | PREGLER, SHARON | 1772 | §103 | Final Rejection | 155d overdue | Pending | May 31, 2022 |
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