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 • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
The Manufacturing Technology Centre Limited is managing 1 pending office action within the Chemistry & Materials technology area. This matter is being reviewed by 1 distinct examiner in 1 distinct art unit. This concentration indicates a specific area of current activity for the company's patent portfolio. This focused profile simplifies the administrative burden of tracking multiple actions across different divisions and allows for a targeted legal strategy. Practitioners can observe that the company's current interactions with the patent office are limited to these specific parameters.
KESSLER, CHRISTOPHER S is the busiest examiner for this portfolio, with 1 pending office action currently under review. Since the busiest examiner pending count is 1, this individual handles the company's active prosecution workload. The company's current success in the patent office is tied to the 1 pending action and the specific requirements of the assigned examiner and art unit. Practitioners should prepare responses that align with the technical standards of the 1 art unit and the preferences of the 1 distinct examiner. This focus allows for an analysis of the examiner's past actions and the art unit's requirements.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| KESSLER, CHRISTOPHER S | 1 | 60.1% | +14.4% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18215009 | METHOD FOR CREATING AN OBJECT | KESSLER, CHRISTOPHER S | 34d |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18215009 | METHOD FOR CREATING AN OBJECT | KESSLER, CHRISTOPHER S | 34d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1759 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18215009 | METHOD FOR CREATING AN OBJECT | KESSLER, CHRISTOPHER S | 1759 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | 34d | Pending | Jun 27, 2023 |
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