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
Univacco Technology Inc. currently has 1 pending office action in the Chemistry & Materials technology area. This action is assigned to a distinct examiner and is located within a distinct art unit. This represents a singular point of contact with the patent office for the company's active prosecution, suggesting a targeted approach to its intellectual property in this sector. The presence of the pending office action means that the company's current prosecution resources are focused on a technical matter.
CHRISTOPHER M POLLEY is the busiest examiner for this portfolio, as he is responsible for the 1 pending office action. With only a distinct examiner and a distinct art unit involved, the company's current prosecution success in Chemistry & Materials is tied to the resolution of this specific matter. This concentration in the art unit under the examiner simplifies the management of the portfolio but increases the impact of the individual examiner's decisions on the company's overall patent standing.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| POLLEY, CHRISTOPHER M | 1 | 72.9% | +26.4% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18963543 | COMPOSITE FILM, DECORATIVE FILM, AND METHOD OF DECORATING TARGET SUBSTRATE | POLLEY, CHRISTOPHER M | 48d |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18963543 | COMPOSITE FILM, DECORATIVE FILM, AND METHOD OF DECORATING TARGET SUBSTRATE | POLLEY, CHRISTOPHER M | 48d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1785 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18963543 | COMPOSITE FILM, DECORATIVE FILM, AND METHOD OF DECORATING TARGET SUBSTRATE | POLLEY, CHRISTOPHER M | 1785 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | 48d | Pending | Nov 28, 2024 |
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