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
Waterise AS currently manages 1 pending office action in the Chemistry & Materials technology area. This matter is being examined by 1 distinct examiner, GERMAIN, ADAM ADRIEN, who is the busiest examiner for the portfolio with 1 pending case. The company's active prosecution is contained within 1 distinct art unit, indicating a narrow technical focus for its current USPTO filings.
The presence of 1 pending office action and a single distinct examiner means that the company's current legal strategy is focused on a single point of contact. For the practitioner, this simplifies the management of the portfolio, as there is only one set of examiner preferences to consider. The concentration within 1 distinct art unit further ensures that the examination process follows a consistent set of technical criteria for 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 |
|---|---|
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| GERMAIN, ADAM ADRIEN | 1 | 33.3% | +4.9% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17910699 | Subsea desalination system for shallow water | GERMAIN, ADAM ADRIEN | 67d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1777 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17910699 | Subsea desalination system for shallow water | GERMAIN, ADAM ADRIEN | 1777 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 67d overdue | Pending | Sep 09, 2022 |
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