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 • 3 patents granted in the last 365 days
Arakawa Chemical Industries Ltd. has 1 pending office action within the Chemistry & Materials technology area. This active matter is situated in 1 distinct art unit, showing a concentrated focus on a specific material science or chemical process. The company's current interaction with the patent office is limited to 1 distinct examiner, which streamlines the prosecution workflow. For a practitioner, this indicates that the legal strategy can be narrowly tailored to the specific examination standards of this technical division.
The busiest examiner for the portfolio is REUTHER, ARRIE L, who is handling 1 busiest examiner pending office action. As there is only 1 distinct examiner involved in the company's pending actions, the prosecution strategy is focused on addressing the specific requirements of this individual. The presence of 1 distinct art unit suggests that the company's current intellectual property does not span multiple technical disciplines within the broader chemistry field. This centralized prosecution profile minimizes the complexity often found in larger portfolios that span multiple art units and examiners, allowing for a highly targeted patenting strategy.
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 |
|---|---|
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| REUTHER, ARRIE L | 1 | 70.2% | +12.3% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18472207 | AQUEOUS HEAT-SEALABLE RESIN COMPOSITION AND LAMINATE | REUTHER, ARRIE L | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18472207 | AQUEOUS HEAT-SEALABLE RESIN COMPOSITION AND LAMINATE | REUTHER, ARRIE L | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1764 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18472207 | AQUEOUS HEAT-SEALABLE RESIN COMPOSITION AND LAMINATE | REUTHER, ARRIE L | 1764 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 21, 2023 |
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