Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
2 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Vector Corrosion Technologies Ltd. is managing 2 pending office actions in the Chemistry & Materials technology area. Both of these actions are assigned to 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit. This indicates a high level of concentration, as all current pending matters are being reviewed by the same individual within the same specialized group. The alignment of 2 pending actions with 1 distinct examiner suggests that the company's current intellectual property strategy is highly focused on a specific technical niche.
ALEXANDER W KEELING is the busiest examiner for the portfolio, with 2 pending office actions. This count matches the total number of pending office actions for the company. The reliance on 1 distinct examiner for all 2 pending actions suggests that this specific examiner's decisions will be the primary factor in the company's immediate prosecution outcomes. Practitioners should focus on the specific examination style of this individual, as they currently control the entirety of the company's pending workload in the Chemistry & Materials sector.
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 | 2 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| KEELING, ALEXANDER W | 2 | 55.9% | +38.1% |
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 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18411316 | CATHODIC CORROSION PROTECTION | KEELING, ALEXANDER W | 93d overdue |
| 18468012 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CATHODIC PROTECTION OF STEEL IN A CONCRETE STRUCTURE LOCATED IN AN IONICALLY CONDUCTIVE LIQUID | KEELING, ALEXANDER W | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1795 | 2 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18411316 | CATHODIC CORROSION PROTECTION | KEELING, ALEXANDER W | 1795 | §103 | Final Rejection | 93d overdue | Pending | Jan 12, 2024 |
| 18468012 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CATHODIC PROTECTION OF STEEL IN A CONCRETE STRUCTURE LOCATED IN AN IONICALLY CONDUCTIVE LIQUID | KEELING, ALEXANDER W | 1795 | §103Other | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Sep 15, 2023 |
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