Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
2 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Woodcomposite Sweden AB has 1 pending office action within the Chemistry & Materials technology area. This prosecution activity is limited to 1 distinct art unit and a distinct examiner. NERANGIS, VICKEY M is the busiest examiner for the company, currently responsible for the pending action. The company's current patent strategy is focused on a particular examiner within a specific technical field.
The focus on the Chemistry & Materials sector indicates that the company's current intellectual property efforts are concentrated on material science or chemical processes. With only a distinct examiner involved, the company can develop a very specific rapport and understanding of the examiner's expectations. This centralized prosecution model reduces the complexity often found in larger portfolios with multiple pending actions. Practitioners should leverage this direct relationship to address any technical rejections efficiently within the particular art unit.
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 |
|---|---|
| §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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| NERANGIS, VICKEY M | 2 | 56.6% | +29.0% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18675357 | CELLULOSIC COMPOSITE | NERANGIS, VICKEY M | 33d |
| 18675209 | CELLULOSIC COMPOSITE | NERANGIS, VICKEY M | 75d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1763 | 2 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18675209 | CELLULOSIC COMPOSITE | NERANGIS, VICKEY M | 1763 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 75d | Pending | May 28, 2024 |
| 18675357 | CELLULOSIC COMPOSITE | NERANGIS, VICKEY M | 1763 | §103Other | Non-Final OA | 33d | Pending | May 28, 2024 |
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