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
Thermal Ceramics UK Limited has 1 pending office action within the Chemistry & Materials technology area. This prosecution is being conducted by 1 distinct examiner in 1 distinct art unit, indicating a singular focus for the company's current pending applications. BOLDEN, ELIZABETH A is the busiest examiner for this portfolio, currently managing the 1 pending office action.
The existence of 1 pending office action means that the company's current prosecution results are tied to a single set of examiner interactions. Since the work is limited to 1 distinct art unit, practitioners can focus their efforts on the specific requirements of that unit within the Chemistry & Materials field. BOLDEN, ELIZABETH A is the only examiner with a pending case, so her 1 pending office action represents the entirety of the company's current active workload.
This concentration provides a clear and narrow path for the practitioner to manage. By focusing on the 1 distinct examiner, the legal team can develop a highly customized response that addresses the specific technical rejections common in the assigned art unit. The success of this single application is paramount, as there are no other pending actions to offset a potential negative outcome in this portfolio.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| BOLDEN, ELIZABETH A | 1 | 85.1% | +22.1% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18247303 | THERMAL INSULATION | BOLDEN, ELIZABETH A | 15d |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18247303 | THERMAL INSULATION | BOLDEN, ELIZABETH A | 15d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1731 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18247303 | THERMAL INSULATION | BOLDEN, ELIZABETH A | 1731 | §103 | Final Rejection | 15d | Pending | Mar 30, 2023 |
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