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
The Water & Carbon Group Pty Ltd. currently faces 1 pending office action in the Chemistry & Materials technology area. This single action is assigned to 1 distinct examiner, KEYWORTH, PETER, who is the busiest examiner with 1 pending action. The activity is confined to 1 distinct art unit, reflecting a very specific technical focus for the company's current patent strategy.
With only 1 pending office action and 1 distinct examiner, the prosecution strategy is entirely dependent on the review by KEYWORTH, PETER. The involvement of 1 distinct art unit suggests that the subject matter is clearly categorized within the patent office's system. This singular engagement allows for a highly focused approach to resolving the outstanding office action, as there are no competing priorities or different examiner styles to balance. Practitioners should focus on the specific technical arguments that resonate with this single examiner to move the application toward allowance.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| KEYWORTH, PETER | 1 | 58.3% | +23.9% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19054835 | THE CONTROL OF CONTINUOUS WATER TREATMENT | KEYWORTH, PETER | 8d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1777 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19054835 | THE CONTROL OF CONTINUOUS WATER TREATMENT | KEYWORTH, PETER | 1777 | §103 | Final Rejection | 8d overdue | Pending | Feb 15, 2025 |
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