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
Tavalaei Nahid manages 1 pending office action within the Chemistry & Materials technology area. This prosecution involves 1 distinct examiner and is located within 1 distinct art unit. This singular focus indicates a specific technical inquiry within the chemistry sector, where the company's current intellectual property efforts are concentrated in a single examination path. This allows for a targeted response strategy that addresses the specific technical standards of the assigned examiner.
GURTOWSKI, RICHARD C is the busiest examiner for the company, currently handling 1 pending office action. This action constitutes the entirety of the pending workload for the portfolio. Because the activity is limited to 1 distinct art unit, the prosecution is currently confined to a single specialized group within the patent office. This allows the company to maintain a consistent understanding of the art unit's general examination trends while addressing the 1 pending office action. Practitioners can focus their efforts on the specific examination trends of this art unit to navigate the prosecution effectively.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| GURTOWSKI, RICHARD C | 1 | 72.3% | +37.7% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18571278 | WATER TREATMENT DEVICE BASED ON MAGNETIC FIELDS APPLICATION | GURTOWSKI, RICHARD C | 29d |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18571278 | WATER TREATMENT DEVICE BASED ON MAGNETIC FIELDS APPLICATION | GURTOWSKI, RICHARD C | 29d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1773 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18571278 | WATER TREATMENT DEVICE BASED ON MAGNETIC FIELDS APPLICATION | GURTOWSKI, RICHARD C | 1773 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | 29d | Pending | Dec 18, 2023 |
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