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
Trimer Technologies LLC is currently managing 1 pending office action in the Chemistry & Materials technology area. This action is assigned to 1 distinct examiner, SERGENT, RABON A, who is the busiest examiner for the portfolio with 1 pending matter. The pending activity is concentrated within 1 distinct art unit.
For a practitioner, this 1 to 1 ratio between the pending office action and the examiner, SERGENT, RABON A, means that the prosecution strategy must be highly focused. There is no diversification across other art units, suggesting that the technology is specialized within the Chemistry & Materials field. The practitioner should focus on the specific examination history and preferences of SERGENT, RABON A to navigate the 1 pending action. Because there is only 1 distinct art unit involved, the practitioner can tailor the arguments to the specific standards of that unit. This centralized approach requires a deep understanding of the individual examiner's past decisions to ensure a favorable outcome for the company's current intellectual property efforts.
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 |
|---|---|
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| SERGENT, RABON A | 1 | 55.0% | +24.1% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17771242 | MANUFACTURE OF FIBER REINFORCED COMPOSITE MATERIALS WITH ISOCYANATE RESIN | SERGENT, RABON A | 126d overdue |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17771242 | MANUFACTURE OF FIBER REINFORCED COMPOSITE MATERIALS WITH ISOCYANATE RESIN | SERGENT, RABON A | 126d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1765 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17771242 | MANUFACTURE OF FIBER REINFORCED COMPOSITE MATERIALS WITH ISOCYANATE RESIN | SERGENT, RABON A | 1765 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 126d overdue | Pending | Apr 22, 2022 |
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