Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
1 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Xylem Water Solutions Zelienople LLC has 1 pending office action within the Chemistry & Materials technology area. This action is being handled by 1 distinct examiner and is located in 1 distinct art unit. The portfolio's current activity is concentrated, with all pending matters residing in a single technical and organizational silo.
KURTZ, BENJAMIN M is the busiest examiner for the company, managing 1 pending office action. This action constitutes the total pending volume for Xylem Water Solutions Zelienople LLC. Because there is only 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit, the prosecution strategy is focused on the specific feedback and standards of KURTZ, BENJAMIN M within the Chemistry & Materials field.
The presence of 1 pending office action suggests a low volume of active disputes at the patent office for this entity. Practitioners can focus resources on the distinct art unit involved, as there are no other active units to monitor. The role of KURTZ, BENJAMIN M is central to the portfolio's progress, as this examiner holds the only pending action currently identified in the data.
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 | 1 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| KURTZ, BENJAMIN M | 1 | 56.8% | +17.6% |
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 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18570091 | UV Mesh Cover for Clarifiers and Systems Thereof | KURTZ, BENJAMIN M | 75d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1779 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18570091 | UV Mesh Cover for Clarifiers and Systems Thereof | KURTZ, BENJAMIN M | 1779 | §103 | Final Rejection | 75d | Pending | Dec 14, 2023 |
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