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
T E C S R L has 1 pending office action within the Chemistry & Materials technology area. This matter is being handled by 1 distinct examiner, LACLAIR, LOGAN EDWARD, who is the busiest examiner for the portfolio with 1 pending action. The prosecution is currently limited to 1 distinct art unit.
This centralized prosecution profile means that the practitioner's entire strategy for T E C S R L is tied to LACLAIR, LOGAN EDWARD. With 1 pending office action in 1 distinct art unit, there is no opportunity to compare examiner behaviors or art unit trends within the company's own portfolio. The practitioner should prioritize a detailed analysis of the prior art and rejection types favored by LACLAIR, LOGAN EDWARD. Because the portfolio is not spread across multiple examiners, the outcome of this 1 action is critical for the company's Chemistry & Materials intellectual property. A successful practitioner will need to be highly attuned to the specific requirements of this 1 examiner to move the pending action toward allowance.
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 |
|---|---|
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| LACLAIR, LOGAN EDWARD | 1 | 78.2% | +22.2% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17755192 | ECOLOGICAL PURIFICATION AND REACTIVATION PROCESS OF CARBON BLACK OBTAINED FROM THE PYROLYSIS OF USED TYRES | LACLAIR, LOGAN EDWARD | 15d |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17755192 | ECOLOGICAL PURIFICATION AND REACTIVATION PROCESS OF CARBON BLACK OBTAINED FROM THE PYROLYSIS OF USED TYRES | LACLAIR, LOGAN EDWARD | 15d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1736 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17755192 | ECOLOGICAL PURIFICATION AND REACTIVATION PROCESS OF CARBON BLACK OBTAINED FROM THE PYROLYSIS OF USED TYRES | LACLAIR, LOGAN EDWARD | 1736 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | 15d | Pending | Apr 22, 2022 |
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