Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
4 pending office actions • 1 art units • 4 examiners • 0 of 4 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 4 patents granted in the last 365 days
Agc Si-Tech Co. Ltd. currently has 4 pending office actions in the Chemistry & Materials technology area. These 4 actions are assigned to 4 distinct examiners, yet they all fall within 1 distinct art unit. This suggests that while the individual reviewers vary, the supervisory environment and departmental policies remain consistent across the entire pending portfolio. The concentration within 1 distinct art unit provides a unified administrative framework for the 4 pending office actions.
The busiest examiner, WEBB, WALTER E, is responsible for 1 pending office action. With 4 distinct examiners each handling 1 of the 4 pending office actions, the workload is perfectly distributed. This lack of examiner concentration means that the company must navigate 4 different individual perspectives, even though they are all housed within the same 1 distinct art unit. For practitioners, this situation highlights the importance of understanding the specific art unit's guidelines, as it is the common thread for all 4 pending office actions. The strategy must balance individual examiner preferences with the overarching standards of the Chemistry & Materials unit.
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 |
|---|---|
| §102 only | 1 (25%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 1 (25%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| WEBB, WALTER E | 1 | 46.3% | +18.8% |
| RUMMEL, IAN A | 1 | 56.6% | +18.4% |
| EASHOO, MARK | 1 | 37.3% | +35.9% |
| RUMP, RICHARD M | 1 | 74.6% | +20.1% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18923800 | LIQUID COMPOSITION, PREPREG, METAL SUBSTRATE WITH RESIN, WIRING BOARD, AND SILICA PARTICLES | RUMMEL, IAN A | 19d |
| 18977587 | SILICA POWDER FOR COSMETIC PREPARATIONS, AND COSMETIC PREPARATION | WEBB, WALTER E | — |
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 4 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18923800 | LIQUID COMPOSITION, PREPREG, METAL SUBSTRATE WITH RESIN, WIRING BOARD, AND SILICA PARTICLES | RUMMEL, IAN A | 19d |
| 18977587 | SILICA POWDER FOR COSMETIC PREPARATIONS, AND COSMETIC PREPARATION | WEBB, WALTER E | — |
| 18420860 | SPHERICAL SILICA POWDER AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING SPHERICAL SILICA POWDER | EASHOO, MARK | — |
| 18397333 | LIGHT SCATTERING SILICA PARTICLES AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING LIGHT SCATTERING SILICA PARTICLES | RUMP, RICHARD M | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1785 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18977587 | SILICA POWDER FOR COSMETIC PREPARATIONS, AND COSMETIC PREPARATION | WEBB, WALTER E | — | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 11, 2024 |
| 18923800 | LIQUID COMPOSITION, PREPREG, METAL SUBSTRATE WITH RESIN, WIRING BOARD, AND SILICA PARTICLES | RUMMEL, IAN A | 1785 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | 19d | Pending | Oct 23, 2024 |
| 18420860 | SPHERICAL SILICA POWDER AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING SPHERICAL SILICA POWDER | EASHOO, MARK | — | §102§103DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 24, 2024 |
| 18397333 | LIGHT SCATTERING SILICA PARTICLES AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING LIGHT SCATTERING SILICA PARTICLES | RUMP, RICHARD M | — | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 27, 2023 |
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