Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
3 pending office actions • 3 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 2 patents granted in the last 365 days
Xtpl S A has 2 pending office actions in the Chemistry & Materials technology area. These actions are assigned to 2 distinct examiners and 2 distinct art units. MOHAMED K AHMED ALI is the busiest examiner for the portfolio, currently handling 1 pending office action.
The 2 pending office actions are split between 2 distinct examiners, meaning each examiner is responsible for one matter. This distribution indicates that no single examiner is overwhelmed by the company's current filings. The 2 distinct art units suggest that each action is being reviewed within a different technical group. MOHAMED K AHMED ALI is one of the two individuals managing the current workload in the Chemistry & Materials area.
Because the 2 pending office actions are located in 2 distinct art units, the technical focus of the portfolio is divided. The prosecution team must manage relationships with 2 distinct examiners, including MOHAMED K AHMED ALI. Each of these 2 distinct examiners handles 1 pending office action. This arrangement requires a strategy that addresses the individual preferences of both examiners while operating across different art units. The 1 pending office action managed by MOHAMED K AHMED ALI represents half of the company's active matters.
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 | 3 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| AHMED ALI, MOHAMED K | 1 | 71.0% | +26.9% |
| ROBINSON, MICHAEL | 1 | 62.0% | +20.6% |
| MCDONOUGH, JAMES E | 1 | 71.1% | +10.9% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19243997 | ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING SYSTEMS COMPRISING AT LEAST TWO NOZZLES AND METHODS FOR ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING | AHMED ALI, MOHAMED K | — |
| 18975484 | APPARATUS AND METHODS FOR FILLING MICROCAVITIES | ROBINSON, MICHAEL | — |
| 17425660 | CONDUCTIVE INK COMPOSITIONS | MCDONOUGH, JAMES E | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1743 | 1 |
| 1744 | 1 |
| 1734 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19243997 | ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING SYSTEMS COMPRISING AT LEAST TWO NOZZLES AND METHODS FOR ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING | AHMED ALI, MOHAMED K | 1743 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 20, 2025 |
| 18975484 | APPARATUS AND METHODS FOR FILLING MICROCAVITIES | ROBINSON, MICHAEL | 1744 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 10, 2024 |
| 17425660 | CONDUCTIVE INK COMPOSITIONS | MCDONOUGH, JAMES E | 1734 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 23, 2021 |
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