Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
3 pending office actions • 3 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 3 patents granted in the last 365 days
VERITEQUE USA, INC. has 3 pending office actions within the Chemistry & Materials technology area. These actions are spread across 3 distinct art units, indicating that the company is pursuing patent protection for a variety of chemical or material innovations. The prosecution involves a matching number of distinct examiners, ensuring that each of the pending office actions is subject to an independent review process.
SINES, BRIAN J is identified as the busiest examiner, though this role involves only 1 pending office action. This distribution means that the workload is evenly balanced among the distinct examiners. Because each action is in a different distinct art unit, the legal team must address a broad spectrum of technical standards. The lack of concentration under any single examiner or art unit suggests a diversified prosecution strategy within the Chemistry & Materials field.
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 |
|---|---|
| §101 + other | 1 (33%) |
| §103 only | 2 (67%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| SINES, BRIAN J | 1 | 80.1% | +5.2% |
| ALABI, OYELEYE A | 1 | 84.0% | +25.2% |
| FRITCHMAN, REBECCA M | 1 | 45.7% | +35.3% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18611334 | PORTABLE LIQUID ANALYZER | SINES, BRIAN J | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18568467 | BROAD SPECTRUM DETECTION KITS | ALABI, OYELEYE A | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18006011 | GUN SHOT RESIDUE FIELD KIT | FRITCHMAN, REBECCA M | 16d overdue |
| 18568467 | BROAD SPECTRUM DETECTION KITS | ALABI, OYELEYE A | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1796 | 1 |
| 1797 | 1 |
| 1758 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18611334 | PORTABLE LIQUID ANALYZER | SINES, BRIAN J | 1796 | §103Other | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Mar 20, 2024 |
| 18568467 | BROAD SPECTRUM DETECTION KITS | ALABI, OYELEYE A | 1797 | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 08, 2023 |
| 18006011 | GUN SHOT RESIDUE FIELD KIT | FRITCHMAN, REBECCA M | 1758 | §103 | Final Rejection | 16d overdue | Pending | Jan 19, 2023 |
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