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 • 3 patents granted in the last 365 days
Wolverine Advanced Materials LLC is currently managing 2 pending office actions within the Chemistry & Materials technology area. These actions are distributed across 2 distinct examiners and 2 distinct art units. This one-to-one ratio between actions, examiners, and art units suggests that each pending matter is being handled in a unique technical and administrative environment.
The busiest examiner for the company is RICE, STEVEN, who is handling 1 pending office action. Given that there are 2 pending office actions in total, the workload is evenly split among the 2 distinct examiners. This distribution means that the company's prosecution results in the Chemistry & Materials sector are currently subject to the independent reviews of two different individuals in two different units.
For a practitioner, this spread across 2 distinct art units for only 2 pending office actions indicates a lack of examiner or unit concentration. Each application likely requires a tailored approach suited to the specific requirements of its respective art unit and examiner. The Chemistry & Materials field remains the central focus for these active filings.
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 | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| RICE, STEVEN | 1 | 39.3% | +43.7% |
| MAYY, MOHAMMAD | 1 | 48.5% | +23.2% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18171210 | HYBRID ACOUSTIC DAMPING LAYER | MAYY, MOHAMMAD | 38d overdue |
| 19076544 | ELASTOMERIC-RESIN HYBRID COMPOSITE WITH ELASTOMERIC LAYERS | RICE, STEVEN | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1712 | 1 |
| 1718 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19076544 | ELASTOMERIC-RESIN HYBRID COMPOSITE WITH ELASTOMERIC LAYERS | RICE, STEVEN | 1712 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 11, 2025 |
| 18171210 | HYBRID ACOUSTIC DAMPING LAYER | MAYY, MOHAMMAD | 1718 | §103 | Final Rejection | 38d overdue | Pending | Feb 17, 2023 |
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