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
Tnp Corporation holds a company patent portfolio with 1 pending office action. This action is located within the Chemistry & Materials technology area. The portfolio's current activity is limited to 1 distinct art unit and 1 distinct examiner.
SAAD, ERIN BARRY is the busiest examiner for this entity, currently managing 1 pending office action. This figure represents the total volume of the company's pending workload at the office. The concentration of the matter under SAAD, ERIN BARRY within the 1 distinct art unit suggests a very focused prosecution effort.
For a practitioner, the strategy for this portfolio is entirely dependent on the interaction with the busiest examiner. With the 1 pending office action in the Chemistry & Materials sector, there is a lack of opportunity for cross-application strategy or examiner comparison within the current data set. The outcome of this matter will define the current success of the company's pending portfolio. This prosecution requires a direct and specific approach to the 1 distinct examiner involved.
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 |
|---|---|
| §112 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| SAAD, ERIN BARRY | 1 | 72.4% | +11.5% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19400367 | METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING SHOWER HEAD FOR SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING USING AN IMPROVED DIFFUSION BONDING PROCESS | SAAD, ERIN BARRY | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1735 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19400367 | METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING SHOWER HEAD FOR SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING USING AN IMPROVED DIFFUSION BONDING PROCESS | SAAD, ERIN BARRY | 1735 | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 25, 2025 |
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