Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Tristel PLC maintains a patent portfolio with 3 pending office actions concentrated in the Chemistry & Materials technology area. These actions are distributed across 3 distinct examiners and 3 distinct art units, indicating a range of technical subject matter within the portfolio. This distribution suggests that the company's innovations are being evaluated by multiple specialized groups within the patent office, rather than being centralized under a single examination team.
The busiest examiner identified for the portfolio is CONLEY, SEAN EVERETT, who is currently handling 1 busiest examiner pending action. While CONLEY, SEAN EVERETT is the most active, the fact that there are 3 distinct examiners for 3 pending office actions shows that the workload is not concentrated under one individual. Practitioners should prepare for varied examination styles, as each of the 3 pending office actions is being reviewed by a different individual in a different art unit. This lack of overlap between the 3 distinct examiners and 3 distinct art units requires a tailored approach for each application to address the specific preferences of the assigned personnel.
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 |
|---|---|
| §102 only | 1 (50%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (50%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| CONLEY, SEAN EVERETT | 1 | 70.6% | +11.6% |
| YOO, REGINA M | 1 | 63.8% | +6.1% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18005844 | VALIDATION OF DECONTAMINATION PROCEDURES FOR A MEDICAL DEVICE | YOO, REGINA M | 80d 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18572004 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PREPARING A LIQUID PREPARATION | CONLEY, SEAN EVERETT | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1799 | 1 |
| 1758 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18572004 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PREPARING A LIQUID PREPARATION | CONLEY, SEAN EVERETT | 1799 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 19, 2023 |
| 18005844 | VALIDATION OF DECONTAMINATION PROCEDURES FOR A MEDICAL DEVICE | YOO, REGINA M | 1758 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 80d overdue | Pending | Jan 17, 2023 |
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