Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
1 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Volt Group Limited currently manages 1 pending office action within the Chemistry & Materials technology area. This action is assigned to 1 distinct examiner and is being reviewed within 1 distinct art unit. This indicates a concentrated focus for the company's current patent prosecution, with all activity localized to one specific technical area and one point of contact at the USPTO. The lack of diversity in examiners and art units simplifies the administrative overhead of tracking the portfolio within Chemistry & Materials.
The busiest examiner for this portfolio is WILKINS III, HARRY D, who is responsible for 1 pending office action. Since the total number of pending office actions is limited to this single matter, WILKINS III, HARRY D is the sole examiner currently engaged with the company's pending applications. This creates a focused prosecution environment where the applicant can concentrate their efforts on addressing the specific concerns and examination style of this one individual. Practitioners can focus their strategy on the specific examination practices and precedents of this examiner.
The involvement of 1 distinct art unit suggests that the pending matter is situated within a specific technical niche. For practitioners, this simplifies the prosecution process, as there is no need to navigate the differing standards or timelines of multiple art units. The strategy can be entirely dedicated to the precedents and practices of this unit, ensuring a consistent approach to the company's current intellectual property goals. This concentration of effort can lead to a more efficient path toward patent allowance for the pending application.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| WILKINS III, HARRY D | 1 | 62.3% | +19.2% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18275695 | A Process and System for Producing Hydrogen | WILKINS III, HARRY D | 6d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1794 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18275695 | A Process and System for Producing Hydrogen | WILKINS III, HARRY D | 1794 | §103 | Final Rejection | 6d | Pending | Aug 03, 2023 |
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