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
Thermoflex Corp. currently manages 1 pending office action within the Chemistry & Materials technology area. This prosecution is handled by 1 distinct examiner and is located in 1 distinct art unit. The focus on 1 pending action suggests a specific technical objective within the Chemistry & Materials sector, likely involving a particular material or chemical process that requires a targeted and effective response to the patent office.
The busiest examiner for this portfolio is WEYDEMEYER, ETHAN, who is responsible for 1 busiest examiner pending action. As the only examiner involved in the 1 pending office action, WEYDEMEYER, ETHAN'S review will determine the immediate trajectory of the company's patent application. The use of 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit provides a clear point of contact for the 1 pending action. Practitioners must provide a precise response to the findings of WEYDEMEYER, ETHAN to successfully advance the portfolio in the Chemistry & Materials field.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| WEYDEMEYER, ETHAN | 1 | 44.2% | +44.5% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18409368 | PLASTIC ARTICLE WITH FAUX STITCHING AND METHOD OF FORMING SAME | WEYDEMEYER, ETHAN | 8d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1783 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18409368 | PLASTIC ARTICLE WITH FAUX STITCHING AND METHOD OF FORMING SAME | WEYDEMEYER, ETHAN | 1783 | §103 | Final Rejection | 8d | Pending | Jan 10, 2024 |
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