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
Zinc Technologies Inc. currently faces 1 pending office action in the Chemistry & Materials technology area. This action is assigned to 1 distinct examiner, DIGNAN, MICHAEL L, who is the busiest examiner for the company with 1 pending office action. The prosecution is localized within 1 distinct art unit.
The presence of 1 pending office action indicates a focused engagement with the USPTO. Because there is only 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit, the company's current legal interactions are highly centralized. DIGNAN, MICHAEL L is the only official currently overseeing the company's pending patent work.
The concentration of the workload under a single examiner suggests a streamlined prosecution process. Because there is only 1 busiest examiner pending action, the technical focus of the examination remains narrow. Practitioners working with DIGNAN, MICHAEL L will find that this individual manages the entirety of the company's currently pending work. This structure allows for a very specific legal strategy tailored to the preferences of a single examiner.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| DIGNAN, MICHAEL L | 1 | 58.0% | +16.4% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18032242 | ZINC-AIR SECONDARY BATTERY SYSTEM | DIGNAN, MICHAEL L | 62d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1723 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18032242 | ZINC-AIR SECONDARY BATTERY SYSTEM | DIGNAN, MICHAEL L | 1723 | §103 | Final Rejection | 62d | Pending | Apr 17, 2023 |
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