Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Chemistry & Materials • Computing & Software
7 pending office actions • 4 clients • 7 examiners • 7 art units • 0 of 7 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
FOUNTAINHEAD LAW GROUP, PC has 776 career applications in the Chemistry & Materials technology area. They maintain a high resolved allowance rate pct of 90.43, indicating a very effective prosecution strategy. This success is paired with an avg office actions per allowance of 3.63, showing that the firm is willing to engage in multiple rounds of negotiation. The firm currently has 6 pending office actions.
The 3.63 avg office actions per allowance helps practitioners understand the effort required to achieve the 90.43 resolved allowance rate pct. With 776 career applications, the firm has a strong track record in Chemistry & Materials. The 6 pending office actions represent the current workload for this technology area. This data suggests a firm that consistently delivers high allowance rates through a dedicated and iterative prosecution process.
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 | 5 (71%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 1 (14%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (14%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| VO, HAI | 1 | 57.1% | +72.4% |
| GOLDEN, CHINESSA T | 1 | 57.9% | +4.8% |
| PATEL, DHRUVKUMAR | 1 | 79.5% | +15.9% |
| WITHEY, THEODORE JOHN | 1 | 43.3% | +39.3% |
| OCHOA, JUAN CARLOS | 1 | 67.3% | +22.1% |
| ZHANG, MICHAEL N | 1 | 54.2% | +23.3% |
| RUMMEL, JULIA L | 1 | 34.8% | +52.4% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18844919 | HIERARCHICAL STRUCTURES AND METHODS OF MANUFACTURE THEREOF | GOLDEN, CHINESSA T | — |
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 6 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17784502 | Selectively Applied Gradient Coating Compositions | ZHANG, MICHAEL N | 114d overdue |
| 17995902 | AUTOMATED MIXING OF AUDIO DESCRIPTION | WITHEY, THEODORE JOHN | 56d overdue |
| 17784495 | Ceramic Composite Materials | RUMMEL, JULIA L | 41d |
| 18918514 | Functionalized Textile Compositions and Articles | VO, HAI | — |
| 18427353 | SAUNA CLOUD SYSTEMS AND METHODS | PATEL, DHRUVKUMAR | — |
| 17894038 | AUTOMATED VERIFICATION OF INTEGRATED CIRCUITS | OCHOA, JUAN CARLOS | — |
| Client (Assignee) | Pending OAs |
|---|---|
| NELUMBO INC. | 4 |
| High Tech Health International | 1 |
| Dolby | 1 |
| Celera, Inc. | 1 |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1788 | 1 |
| 1712 | 1 |
| 2119 | 1 |
| 2655 | 1 |
| 2186 | 1 |
| 1781 | 1 |
| 1784 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Client | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18918514 | Functionalized Textile Compositions and Articles | Nelumbo Inc. | VO, HAI | 1788 | §102§103DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 17, 2024 |
| 18844919 | HIERARCHICAL STRUCTURES AND METHODS OF MANUFACTURE THEREOF | Nelumbo Inc. | GOLDEN, CHINESSA T | 1712 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 06, 2024 |
| 18427353 | SAUNA CLOUD SYSTEMS AND METHODS | High Tech Health International, Inc. | PATEL, DHRUVKUMAR | 2119 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jan 30, 2024 |
| 17995902 | AUTOMATED MIXING OF AUDIO DESCRIPTION | Dolby Laboratories Licensing Corporation | WITHEY, THEODORE JOHN | 2655 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 56d overdue | Pending | Oct 10, 2022 |
| 17894038 | AUTOMATED VERIFICATION OF INTEGRATED CIRCUITS | Celera, Inc. | OCHOA, JUAN CARLOS | 2186 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Aug 23, 2022 |
| 17784502 | Selectively Applied Gradient Coating Compositions | Nelumbo Inc. | ZHANG, MICHAEL N | 1781 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 114d overdue | Pending | Jun 10, 2022 |
| 17784495 | Ceramic Composite Materials | Nelumbo Inc. | RUMMEL, JULIA L | 1784 | §103 | Final Rejection | 41d | Pending | Jun 10, 2022 |
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