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
Taif Joint-Stock Company is handling 2 pending office actions in the Chemistry & Materials technology area. These actions are assigned to 2 distinct examiners but are grouped within 1 distinct art unit. This suggests that the company's current filings are technically related enough to stay in one art unit but are being evaluated by different individuals.
STEIN, MICHELLE is the busiest examiner for the portfolio with 1 pending case. The prosecution strategy should account for the different perspectives of 2 distinct examiners. Having multiple examiners in 1 distinct art unit can lead to varied feedback on similar chemical concepts. Practitioners should monitor both cases to ensure that arguments made to one official do not conflict with those made to the other. This structure requires a coordinated approach to maintain a consistent patent narrative across the portfolio. The outcome of these 2 pending office actions will provide valuable insight into the art unit's current interpretation of materials science patentability.
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 |
|---|---|
| §112 only | 1 (50%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| LING, DORIS | 1 | 25.0% | +27.3% |
| STEIN, MICHELLE | 1 | 45.2% | +35.6% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18618605 | Sintering Aid Composition | LING, DORIS | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18618056 | Method For Processing Heavy Petroleum Feedstock | STEIN, MICHELLE | 51d overdue |
| 18618605 | Sintering Aid Composition | LING, DORIS | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1771 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18618605 | Sintering Aid Composition | LING, DORIS | — | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 27, 2024 |
| 18618056 | Method For Processing Heavy Petroleum Feedstock | STEIN, MICHELLE | 1771 | §103DP | Final Rejection | 51d overdue | Pending | Mar 27, 2024 |
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