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
Thin Film Service Inc. is currently managing 1 pending office action within the Chemistry & Materials technology area. This prosecution involves 1 distinct examiner and is being processed within 1 distinct art unit. The company's current activity at the patent office is concentrated in this single matter, reflecting a focused intellectual property strategy.
The busiest examiner for the portfolio is MACARTHUR, SYLVIA, who holds 1 busiest examiner pending office action. This examiner is responsible for the entirety of the company's 1 pending office action workload. The focus on 1 examiner and 1 art unit indicates that the current prosecution results are tied to the specific examination environment of this technical field. Practitioners should prepare for a focused dialogue with this examiner to advance the pending application through the chemistry and materials art unit.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| MACARTHUR, SYLVIA | 1 | 65.7% | +25.9% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18665999 | Systems and Methods for Depositing Alternating Layers for a Diamond-Like Coating | MACARTHUR, SYLVIA | 30d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1716 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18665999 | Systems and Methods for Depositing Alternating Layers for a Diamond-Like Coating | MACARTHUR, SYLVIA | 1716 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 30d | Pending | May 16, 2024 |
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