Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
3 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Woodard & Curran Inc. manages a company patent portfolio with 3 pending office actions. These matters are situated within the Chemistry & Materials technology area. All current activity is confined to 1 distinct art unit and 1 distinct examiner.
BASS, DIRK R is the busiest examiner for this portfolio, currently overseeing 3 pending office actions. This indicates that BASS, DIRK R is responsible for the entirety of the company's pending workload. The concentration of the 3 pending office actions under the examiner within the 1 distinct art unit suggests a highly focused prosecution strategy.
Practitioners should focus their efforts on understanding the specific preferences of BASS, DIRK R, as this individual controls the outcome for the pending matters. The lack of diversity in examiners and art units means that the company's current success in the Chemistry & Materials sector is tied to a single point of contact at the patent office. This 1 distinct examiner handles all active cases within the 1 distinct art unit.
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 (33%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (67%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| BASS, DIRK R | 3 | 62.4% | +22.8% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19396752 | NANOPARTICLE-ENTRAINED MULTIFUNCTIONAL NANOSTRUCTURE-COATED MOBILE CARRIERS, AND SYSTEMS AND METHODS OF UTILIZING SAME TO TREAT CONTAMINATED WATER | BASS, DIRK R | — |
| 19394162 | NANOPARTICLE-ENTRAINED MULTIFUNCTIONAL NANOSTRUCTURE-COATED MOBILE CARRIERS, AND SYSTEMS AND METHODS OF UTILIZING SAME TO TREAT CONTAMINATED WATER | BASS, DIRK R | — |
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 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19396752 | NANOPARTICLE-ENTRAINED MULTIFUNCTIONAL NANOSTRUCTURE-COATED MOBILE CARRIERS, AND SYSTEMS AND METHODS OF UTILIZING SAME TO TREAT CONTAMINATED WATER | BASS, DIRK R | — |
| 19394162 | NANOPARTICLE-ENTRAINED MULTIFUNCTIONAL NANOSTRUCTURE-COATED MOBILE CARRIERS, AND SYSTEMS AND METHODS OF UTILIZING SAME TO TREAT CONTAMINATED WATER | BASS, DIRK R | — |
| 19390832 | NANOPARTICLE-ENTRAINED MULTIFUNCTIONAL NANOSTRUCTURE-COATED MOBILE CARRIERS, AND SYSTEMS AND METHODS OF UTILIZING SAME TO TREAT CONTAMINATED WATER | BASS, DIRK R | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1779 | 3 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19396752 | NANOPARTICLE-ENTRAINED MULTIFUNCTIONAL NANOSTRUCTURE-COATED MOBILE CARRIERS, AND SYSTEMS AND METHODS OF UTILIZING SAME TO TREAT CONTAMINATED WATER | BASS, DIRK R | 1779 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 21, 2025 |
| 19394162 | NANOPARTICLE-ENTRAINED MULTIFUNCTIONAL NANOSTRUCTURE-COATED MOBILE CARRIERS, AND SYSTEMS AND METHODS OF UTILIZING SAME TO TREAT CONTAMINATED WATER | BASS, DIRK R | 1779 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 19, 2025 |
| 19390832 | NANOPARTICLE-ENTRAINED MULTIFUNCTIONAL NANOSTRUCTURE-COATED MOBILE CARRIERS, AND SYSTEMS AND METHODS OF UTILIZING SAME TO TREAT CONTAMINATED WATER | BASS, DIRK R | 1779 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 17, 2025 |
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