Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Tessenderlo Kerley Inc. is currently managing 2 pending office actions in the Chemistry & Materials technology area. These actions are distributed across 2 distinct examiners and 2 distinct art units. The busiest examiner for the portfolio is KEYWORTH, PETER. This examiner is currently handling 1 pending office action.
Practitioners must prepare for distinct prosecution environments across the 2 distinct art units involved. With 2 distinct examiners handling 2 pending office actions, the portfolio is not concentrated under a single individual. This distribution requires the legal team to adapt to 2 different sets of examiner behaviors and art unit norms simultaneously. This fragmented landscape may necessitate a varied advocacy approach to address the specific requirements of each examiner.
The involvement of 2 distinct art units further suggests a diversification in the technical focus of the pending applications. Managing 2 pending office actions across 2 distinct examiners means that the company's success is not tied to the discretion of KEYWORTH, PETER. This spread can mitigate the risk of 1 difficult examiner impacting the entire pending portfolio. The 2 distinct art units involved require the legal team to stay updated on different sets of internal guidelines.
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 |
|---|---|
| §102 only | 1 (50%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| KEYWORTH, PETER | 1 | 58.3% | +23.9% |
| SHERMAN, ERIC SCOTT | 1 | 73.5% | +18.5% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17917265 | REMOVING WATER-SOLUBLE HEAVY METAL-SULFUR COMPLEX FROM PROCESS SOLUTION | KEYWORTH, PETER | 43d overdue |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17917265 | REMOVING WATER-SOLUBLE HEAVY METAL-SULFUR COMPLEX FROM PROCESS SOLUTION | KEYWORTH, PETER | 43d overdue |
| 17621242 | Polysulfide Compositions and Processes for Making Same | SHERMAN, ERIC SCOTT | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1777 | 1 |
| 1736 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17917265 | REMOVING WATER-SOLUBLE HEAVY METAL-SULFUR COMPLEX FROM PROCESS SOLUTION | KEYWORTH, PETER | 1777 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | 43d overdue | Pending | Oct 06, 2022 |
| 17621242 | Polysulfide Compositions and Processes for Making Same | SHERMAN, ERIC SCOTT | 1736 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 21, 2021 |
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