Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
3 pending office actions • 2 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Xefco Pty Ltd. is active in the Chemistry & Materials technology area with 2 pending office actions. These actions are distributed across 2 distinct examiners, indicating that each pending matter is being reviewed by a different official. The portfolio's activity is spread across 2 distinct art units, reflecting a range of technical topics within the company's chemical research.
MOORE, KARLA A is the busiest examiner for the portfolio, holding 1 busiest examiner pending office action. This 1 action is part of the 2 total pending office actions for the company. With 2 distinct examiners and 2 distinct art units involved, the prosecution strategy must account for different examination styles and technical standards. Practitioners should be prepared to manage 2 separate prosecution tracks to resolve the 2 pending office actions.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 3 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.
Every pending office action with a known statutory deadline, placed on a days-until-due axis. Dots left of Today are overdue; the further right, the more runway. Cases that share a deadline window stack vertically. 3 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.
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 (67%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (33%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| MOORE, KARLA A | 1 | 43.1% | +14.0% |
| WALTERS JR, ROBERT S | 1 | 51.5% | +50.4% |
| CHEN, KEATH T | 1 | 30.2% | +24.7% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18258204 | SYSTEM FOR TREATMENT OF SUBSTRATES | MOORE, KARLA A | 38d overdue |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18018472 | PLASMA COATING WITH NANOMATERIAL | WALTERS JR, ROBERT S | 85d overdue |
| 18258204 | SYSTEM FOR TREATMENT OF SUBSTRATES | MOORE, KARLA A | 38d overdue |
| 17436488 | IMPROVED VAPOUR DEPOSITION SYSTEM, METHOD AND MOISTURE CONTROL DEVICE | CHEN, KEATH T | 30d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1716 | 2 |
| 1717 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18258204 | SYSTEM FOR TREATMENT OF SUBSTRATES | MOORE, KARLA A | 1716 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 38d overdue | Pending | Jun 16, 2023 |
| 18018472 | PLASMA COATING WITH NANOMATERIAL | WALTERS JR, ROBERT S | 1717 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 85d overdue | Pending | Jan 27, 2023 |
| 17436488 | IMPROVED VAPOUR DEPOSITION SYSTEM, METHOD AND MOISTURE CONTROL DEVICE | CHEN, KEATH T | 1716 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 30d overdue | Pending | Sep 03, 2021 |
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