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 Williamson Group LLC currently has 2 pending office actions in the Chemistry & Materials technology area. These actions are distributed between 2 distinct examiners, which indicates that each pending matter is being reviewed by a different official. This distribution requires the company to manage separate examiner perspectives simultaneously within the chemistry sector.
The prosecution activity involves 2 distinct art units, reflecting the technical variety within the Chemistry & Materials portfolio. MERRIAM, ANDREW E is the busiest examiner, currently responsible for 1 of the pending office actions. Since there are 2 pending office actions in total, the workload is evenly split across the 2 distinct examiners. This suggests a balanced prosecution environment without a single point of congestion.
Practitioners should coordinate their efforts across the 2 distinct art units to ensure that the arguments made in one area are consistent with those in another. The 1 pending action under MERRIAM, ANDREW E represents a key portion of the current docket. By addressing the 2 pending office actions with a unified strategy, the company can effectively advance its chemistry and materials innovations through the patent office.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| AXTELL, ASHLEY | 1 | 13.2% | +25.7% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17439142 | DARK BROWN CARAMEL COLOR | AXTELL, ASHLEY | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17439142 | DARK BROWN CARAMEL COLOR | AXTELL, ASHLEY | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1792 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17439142 | DARK BROWN CARAMEL COLOR | AXTELL, ASHLEY | 1792 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 14, 2021 |
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