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 • 4 patents granted in the last 365 days
Terralithium LLC currently manages 2 pending office actions within the Chemistry & Materials technology area. These actions are being reviewed by 2 distinct examiners. All prosecution activity is concentrated within 1 distinct art unit, suggesting a close technical relationship between the applications.
The busiest examiner for the company is RUNYAN, SILVANA C, who is handling 1 pending office action. This accounts for half of the 2 pending office actions currently active in the portfolio. The other action is assigned to the second of the 2 distinct examiners identified in the data.
The focus on 1 distinct art unit within the Chemistry & Materials sector indicates that the company's pending applications are related in subject matter. With the current pending office actions and 2 distinct examiners, the workload is distributed individually. RUNYAN, SILVANA C is responsible for 1 of these pending matters, while the other examiner handles the remaining case.
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 |
|---|---|
| §101 + other | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| RUNYAN, SILVANA C | 1 | 82.4% | +16.9% |
| CHU, YONG LIANG | 1 | 74.9% | +3.1% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18940306 | TREATED GEOTHERMAL BRINE COMPOSITIONS WITH REDUCED CONCENTRATIONS OF SILICA, IRON AND MANGANESE | RUNYAN, SILVANA C | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18940306 | TREATED GEOTHERMAL BRINE COMPOSITIONS WITH REDUCED CONCENTRATIONS OF SILICA, IRON AND MANGANESE | RUNYAN, SILVANA C | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1768 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18940306 | TREATED GEOTHERMAL BRINE COMPOSITIONS WITH REDUCED CONCENTRATIONS OF SILICA, IRON AND MANGANESE | RUNYAN, SILVANA C | 1768 | §101§102§103§112DP | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Nov 07, 2024 |
| 18700962 | PROCESSES FOR PRODUCING LITHIUM COMPOUNDS USING REVERSE OSMOSIS | CHU, YONG LIANG | — | §103DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 12, 2024 |
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