Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
White Rhino U S A LLC currently manages 2 pending office actions within the Chemistry & Materials technology area. These matters are distributed across 2 distinct examiners and 2 distinct art units, indicating a broad spread of examination relative to the total volume of pending applications. The presence of 2 distinct art units suggests that the company's intellectual property may span different specialized sub-sectors within the broader chemistry field, requiring a strategy that accounts for varying examination standards across these administrative groups.
SPARKS, RUSSELL E is identified as the busiest examiner for this portfolio, currently overseeing 1 pending office action. Because this examiner is responsible for 1 of the 2 total pending actions, their individual examination style and historical trends will significantly influence the overall progression of the portfolio. The fact that each of the 2 distinct examiners is handling a single matter suggests a lack of examiner concentration, which may prevent the applicant from leveraging consistent feedback from a single individual across multiple applications.
Practitioners should note that the pending office actions are isolated in different administrative environments. With 2 distinct art units involved, the prosecution team must prepare for potentially divergent prior art citations and legal interpretations. Monitoring the specific tendencies of SPARKS, RUSSELL E will be crucial, as this examiner represents a significant portion of the current workload for White Rhino U S A LLC.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 2 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) | 2 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| KESSIE, JENNIFER A | 1 | 64.9% | +20.3% |
| SPARKS, RUSSELL E | 1 | 63.7% | +14.3% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18165016 | AIRFLOW CONTROL DEVICES AND RELATED METHODS | SPARKS, RUSSELL E | 15d overdue |
| 18165036 | ADJUSTABLE DEVICE | KESSIE, JENNIFER A | 12d |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18165016 | AIRFLOW CONTROL DEVICES AND RELATED METHODS | SPARKS, RUSSELL E | 15d overdue |
| 18165036 | ADJUSTABLE DEVICE | KESSIE, JENNIFER A | 12d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1747 | 1 |
| 1755 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18165036 | ADJUSTABLE DEVICE | KESSIE, JENNIFER A | 1747 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | 12d | Pending | Feb 06, 2023 |
| 18165016 | AIRFLOW CONTROL DEVICES AND RELATED METHODS | SPARKS, RUSSELL E | 1755 | §102§112 | Non-Final OA | 15d overdue | Pending | Feb 06, 2023 |
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