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 • 6 patents granted in the last 365 days
Tensar International Corporation currently manages 1 pending office action within the Chemistry & Materials technology area. This single active matter is assigned to 1 distinct examiner working within 1 distinct art unit. The concentration of the portfolio suggests a highly specific focus for the company's current prosecution efforts. Practitioners should note that the limited scope of active matters simplifies the tracking of examiner behavior and art unit trends. This focused approach may allow for more predictable outcomes compared to portfolios spread across multiple technical domains.
The busiest examiner for this portfolio is VO, HAI, who is responsible for 1 pending office action. This represents the entirety of the company's current workload at the patent office. Having 1 busiest examiner pending 1 matter indicates that prosecution is not distributed across multiple individuals at this time. This centralized workload allows for a focused strategy when responding to the patent office. The presence of only 1 distinct art unit further suggests that the technical subject matter remains within a narrow regulatory or classification framework. Such a structure minimizes the need for diverse prosecution tactics across different USPTO departments.
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 |
|---|---|
| Double-patenting + other | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| VO, HAI | 1 | 57.1% | +72.4% |
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.
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1788 | 1 |
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