Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Xzom Inc. currently has 2 pending office actions within the Chemistry & Materials technology area. These actions are distributed across 2 distinct examiners and 2 distinct art units. This distribution shows that the company's active matters are being handled independently by different personnel in separate divisions of the patent office.
MUI, CHRISTINE T is identified as the busiest examiner for the portfolio, with 1 pending office action currently under review. This 1 action is part of the 2 total pending office actions for the company. The involvement of 2 distinct art units suggests that the company's technologies in Chemistry & Materials span different specialized classifications.
With 2 distinct examiners and separate art units involved, practitioners must manage separate prosecution tracks. There is no central examiner or art unit that dominates the active workload. Each matter requires a strategy specific to the individual examiner and the technical standards of the respective art unit within the technical field.
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 |
|---|---|
| §101 + other | 1 (50%) |
| §103 only | 1 (50%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| MUI, CHRISTINE T | 1 | 78.3% | +19.9% |
| JACKSON, MONIQUE R | 1 | 34.9% | +44.1% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18261090 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR DETECTION AND DISCOVERY OF BIOMARKERS | MUI, CHRISTINE T | 34d |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18004659 | MODIFICATION OF METALLIC SURFACES WITH PHOSPHONIC ACIDS | JACKSON, MONIQUE R | 79d overdue |
| 18261090 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR DETECTION AND DISCOVERY OF BIOMARKERS | MUI, CHRISTINE T | 34d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1797 | 1 |
| 1787 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18261090 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR DETECTION AND DISCOVERY OF BIOMARKERS | MUI, CHRISTINE T | 1797 | §101§102§103§112 | Final Rejection | 34d | Pending | Jul 11, 2023 |
| 18004659 | MODIFICATION OF METALLIC SURFACES WITH PHOSPHONIC ACIDS | JACKSON, MONIQUE R | 1787 | §103 | Final Rejection | 79d overdue | Pending | Jan 06, 2023 |
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