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
Tower Ipco Company Limited operates in the Chemistry & Materials technology area. The company has 1 pending office action. This action is being reviewed by 1 distinct examiner, showing a very focused prosecution status. This concentration allows the company to dedicate its legal resources to a single examination process rather than managing multiple simultaneous reviews.
The matter is located within 1 distinct art unit. This concentration suggests that the technical subject matter is specific to one chemical or material classification. Practitioners can focus their strategy on the precedents of this 1 unit. Understanding the specific internal policies of the department is critical for success in moving the application toward allowance.
LEONARD, MICHAEL L is the busiest examiner for the portfolio. This examiner is handling the pending office action. The busiest examiner pending count is 1, which means this individual is the sole examiner currently engaged with the company's pending applications. The outcome of the current prosecution depends entirely on this specific interaction. Practitioners should analyze the historical patterns of the examiner to prepare an effective response.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| LEONARD, MICHAEL L | 1 | 63.7% | +8.3% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19231144 | SUSTAINABLE RESILIENT PLANK | LEONARD, MICHAEL L | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1763 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19231144 | SUSTAINABLE RESILIENT PLANK | LEONARD, MICHAEL L | 1763 | §102§103Other | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jun 06, 2025 |
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