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
Synthetic Turf Resources has 1 pending office action in the Chemistry & Materials technology area. Prosecution is currently handled by 1 distinct examiner working within 1 distinct art unit. This concentration of resources indicates that the company's current pending matters are focused on a specific technical niche rather than being distributed across multiple departments.
The presence of 1 distinct examiner for the 1 pending office action allows for a direct line of communication between the applicant and the patent office. This structure avoids the complexity of managing multiple examiner personalities or conflicting procedural requirements. Practitioners can tailor their approach specifically to the history and preferences of the assigned examiner.
PIZIALI, ANDREW T is the busiest examiner for the portfolio, holding 1 pending office action. As the only examiner currently assigned to the company's pending workload, PIZIALI, ANDREW T is the sole individual responsible for the 1 busiest examiner pending action. The outcome of the company's current prosecution efforts depends entirely on the resolution of this single matter.
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 |
|---|---|
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| PIZIALI, ANDREW T | 1 | 28.3% | +27.3% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18316566 | ARTIFICIAL TURF COMPRISING ANTIMICROBIAL POLYURETHANE BACKING | PIZIALI, ANDREW T | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18316566 | ARTIFICIAL TURF COMPRISING ANTIMICROBIAL POLYURETHANE BACKING | PIZIALI, ANDREW T | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1789 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18316566 | ARTIFICIAL TURF COMPRISING ANTIMICROBIAL POLYURETHANE BACKING | PIZIALI, ANDREW T | 1789 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 12, 2023 |
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