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 • 4 patents granted in the last 365 days
VANRX PHARMASYSTEMS INC. currently manages 1 pending office action in the Chemistry & Materials technology area. This active prosecution is handled by 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit, suggesting that the company's current workload is focused within a single technical niche at the USPTO. For a practitioner, there is no need to coordinate between different examiner styles or art unit policies. This concentration allows for a more efficient and unified prosecution strategy.
The busiest examiner for this portfolio is CLEVELAND, TIMOTHY C, who is assigned 1 busiest examiner pending action. Since the total number of pending office actions is 1, CLEVELAND, TIMOTHY C is the sole examiner currently reviewing the company's pending applications. This creates a streamlined prosecution process where the practitioner can focus on a single point of contact. The outcome of the current pending matter rests with CLEVELAND, TIMOTHY C and the standards of the 1 distinct art unit. This singular focus reduces the complexity of managing the company's active intellectual property assets.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| CLEVELAND, TIMOTHY C | 1 | 59.6% | +18.6% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17502884 | METHOD FOR PROTECTING AND UNPROTECTING THE FLUID PATH IN A CONTROLLED ENVIRONMENT ENCLOSURE | CLEVELAND, TIMOTHY C | 55d |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17502884 | METHOD FOR PROTECTING AND UNPROTECTING THE FLUID PATH IN A CONTROLLED ENVIRONMENT ENCLOSURE | CLEVELAND, TIMOTHY C | 55d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1774 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17502884 | METHOD FOR PROTECTING AND UNPROTECTING THE FLUID PATH IN A CONTROLLED ENVIRONMENT ENCLOSURE | CLEVELAND, TIMOTHY C | 1774 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | 55d | Pending | Oct 15, 2021 |
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