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
Terphane LLC maintains 1 pending office action in the Chemistry & Materials technology area. Prosecution is currently handled by 1 distinct examiner working within 1 distinct art unit, which indicates a specific focus for the company's current patent office activity. This pending action represents the total current workload for the portfolio. Such a concentrated workload means that the company's current prosecution success is tied to the evaluation of this examiner.
KESSLER JR, THOMAS JOSEPH is the busiest examiner assigned to the portfolio. This individual is overseeing 1 pending office action, which accounts for all pending matters currently recorded for the company. Because 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit are involved, the prosecution outcomes are presently dependent on a narrow set of administrative units. Practitioners should focus on the specific examination history of this examiner to navigate the 1 pending action effectively, as the assigned art unit provides the specific technical framework for the review.
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 |
|---|---|
| §103 only | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| KESSLER JR, THOMAS JOSEPH | 1 | 45.9% | +47.5% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17918917 | MULTI-LAYER RESEALABLE TAMPER-EVIDENT FILM FOR PACKAGING | KESSLER JR, THOMAS JOSEPH | 5d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1782 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17918917 | MULTI-LAYER RESEALABLE TAMPER-EVIDENT FILM FOR PACKAGING | KESSLER JR, THOMAS JOSEPH | 1782 | §103 | Final Rejection | 5d | Pending | Oct 14, 2022 |
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