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
Vulkam currently manages 1 pending office action within the Chemistry & Materials technology area. This action is assigned to 1 distinct examiner working in 1 distinct art unit. The concentration of the portfolio suggests a specific focus for the company's current intellectual property efforts in the materials sector. This singular focus allows for a targeted strategy when responding to the USPTO, as there are no competing priorities across different technical groups or examiners.
The busiest examiner for this portfolio is SCHLEIS, DANIEL J, who is responsible for 1 busiest examiner pending action. This represents the entirety of the company's pending workload. Practitioners should note the direct relationship between the examiner and the 1 art unit in this instance. The lack of distribution across multiple art units or examiners indicates a narrow prosecution front. By focusing on the specific requirements of this 1 examiner, the company can streamline its communication and potentially reach a resolution more efficiently. This data point is crucial for understanding the current administrative landscape of the portfolio.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| SCHLEIS, DANIEL J | 1 | 71.8% | +4.9% |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1784 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18858355 | ZR-CU-AL ALLOY METALLIC GLASSES | SCHLEIS, DANIEL J | 1784 | §103 | Final Rejection | 20d | Pending | Oct 21, 2024 |
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