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 • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Western Research Institute is pursuing patent protection within the Chemistry & Materials technology area. The company currently has 1 pending office action, which is being processed by 1 distinct examiner. This activity is localized within 1 distinct art unit, suggesting a specialized technical application within the broader materials field.
The busiest examiner for Western Research Institute is BOYER, RANDY, who is currently reviewing the 1 pending office action. This single action constitutes the entire pending workload for the company's portfolio. Consequently, the immediate success of the company's patent filings depends on the specific examination conducted by BOYER, RANDY.
With only 1 distinct art unit involved, the company faces a consolidated regulatory path. Practitioners can focus on the specific examination styles and precedents relevant to that unit. The presence of 1 distinct examiner means that the company's prosecution strategy does not need to account for varying interpretations across different examiners, focusing instead on the 1 pending office action currently on record.
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 |
|---|---|
| §112 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| BOYER, RANDY | 1 | 70.4% | +8.2% |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1771 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18150435 | POLYMER WASTE PROCESSING TO YIELD LIQUID PRODUCTS | BOYER, RANDY | 1771 | §112 | Final Rejection | 46d overdue | Pending | Jan 05, 2023 |
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