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
United Powder Technologies Company Limited manages a patent portfolio in the Chemistry & Materials technology area. There are currently 2 pending office actions across the portfolio. This indicates a moderate level of ongoing prosecution activity that requires active management of multiple filings.
The company's filings are distributed among 2 distinct examiners and 2 distinct art units. This spread suggests that the powder technology being patented covers different technical sub-fields within the broader chemistry sector. Navigating 2 distinct art units requires the company to adapt to different examiner expectations and procedural environments, which can increase the complexity of the prosecution strategy.
FLORES, JAVIER is the busiest examiner for the company. This examiner is responsible for 1 pending office action. Since there are 2 pending office actions in total, this examiner handles a portion of the current workload, while the remaining action is managed by a different examiner in a separate art unit.
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 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FLORES, JAVIER | 1 | 0.0% | +0.0% |
| O'KEEFE, SEAN P | 1 | 65.7% | +12.5% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18392469 | METHODS FOR MAKING A SINTERED BODY | FLORES, JAVIER | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18188878 | GRANULATED POWDER FOR MAKING GREEN BODY WITH HIGH STRENGTH | O'KEEFE, SEAN P | 63d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1735 | 1 |
| 1738 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18392469 | METHODS FOR MAKING A SINTERED BODY | FLORES, JAVIER | 1735 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 21, 2023 |
| 18188878 | GRANULATED POWDER FOR MAKING GREEN BODY WITH HIGH STRENGTH | O'KEEFE, SEAN P | 1738 | §103 | Final Rejection | 63d | Pending | Mar 23, 2023 |
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