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
William Tally manages a patent portfolio in the Chemistry & Materials technology area. Currently, the prosecution data shows 1 pending office action. This matter is being reviewed by 1 distinct examiner, which limits the variety of individual perspectives the applicant must navigate. The portfolio's activity is confined to 1 distinct art unit, suggesting that the underlying technology is specialized and focused within a specific chemical or material science discipline.
PATEL, PRANAV N is the busiest examiner for this entity, with 1 pending office action currently on the docket. As there is only 1 distinct examiner for the entire portfolio, PATEL, PRANAV N is the primary point of contact for the current prosecution cycle. This relationship between the examiner and the pending workload simplifies the management of the 1 distinct art unit. Practitioners can dedicate their efforts to understanding the specific requirements of PATEL, PRANAV N to resolve the outstanding office action in the Chemistry & Materials sector.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| PATEL, PRANAV N | 1 | 68.7% | +21.7% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18280711 | Water Treatment Modules and Method of Use Thereof | PATEL, PRANAV N | 72d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1779 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18280711 | Water Treatment Modules and Method of Use Thereof | PATEL, PRANAV N | 1779 | §103 | Final Rejection | 72d overdue | Pending | Sep 07, 2023 |
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