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
UNOX S.P.A. currently has 1 pending office action in the Chemistry & Materials technology area. This case is assigned to 1 distinct examiner, SMITH, CHAIM A, who is the busiest examiner with 1 pending application. The prosecution is occurring within 1 distinct art unit, suggesting a specialized technical focus for the company's current filings.
The company's current patent activity is centralized, with 1 pending office action being the only matter requiring attention. Because SMITH, CHAIM A is the 1 distinct examiner involved, the prosecution strategy is dependent on the feedback from this single official. The focus on 1 distinct art unit suggests that the underlying technology is specialized within the Chemistry & Materials field.
Practitioners should monitor the 1 pending office action closely, as its outcome will determine the success of the company's current filings. With 1 pending application assigned to SMITH, CHAIM A, the company can tailor its response to the specific preferences of this examiner. This 1 to 1 ratio of pending actions to examiners simplifies the management of the active portfolio at the patent office.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| SMITH, CHAIM A | 1 | 39.2% | +51.2% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17641970 | A METHOD FOR CONSERVING COOKED FOOD PRODUCTS | SMITH, CHAIM A | 30d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1791 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17641970 | A METHOD FOR CONSERVING COOKED FOOD PRODUCTS | SMITH, CHAIM A | 1791 | §103 | Final Rejection | 30d overdue | Pending | Mar 10, 2022 |
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