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
UniSieve Ltd is navigating 1 pending office action in the Chemistry & Materials technology area. This action is being reviewed by 1 distinct examiner in 1 distinct art unit, which indicates a concentrated prosecution profile for the company. The presence of only 1 art unit suggests that the pending matter falls within a specific chemical or materials classification. This singular focus means that prosecution outcomes are currently tied to a specific technical niche, allowing for a highly targeted legal approach. Practitioners can prioritize resources to address the specific technical niche identified by this art unit assignment.
MCCULLOUGH, ERIC J. is the busiest examiner, handling the 1 pending office action. Since there is only 1 distinct examiner involved, the prosecution strategy is focused on a single point of contact at the patent office. Practitioners should focus on the specific requirements of this examiner and the 1 distinct art unit to advance the 1 pending action toward resolution. Analyzing the examiner's history within this assigned unit can provide valuable insights into the likely progression of the case and help in crafting a more effective response. This centralized approach ensures that all legal efforts are concentrated on the specific criteria established by the current examiner.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| MCCULLOUGH, ERIC J. | 1 | 31.8% | +43.4% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18267023 | PROCESS FOR ECONOMICAL PRODUCTION OF POLYMERS FROM NON-POLYMER-GRADE MONOMERS | MCCULLOUGH, ERIC J. | 71d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1773 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18267023 | PROCESS FOR ECONOMICAL PRODUCTION OF POLYMERS FROM NON-POLYMER-GRADE MONOMERS | MCCULLOUGH, ERIC J. | 1773 | §103 | Final Rejection | 71d overdue | Pending | Jun 13, 2023 |
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