Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Chemistry & Materials • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
3 pending office actions • 2 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 3 patents granted in the last 365 days
Arisawa MFG. Co., Ltd. is managing 3 pending office actions in the Chemistry & Materials technology area. These 3 actions are distributed among 3 distinct examiners, which means each examiner is responsible for one matter. This spread across 3 distinct examiners suggests that the company's prosecution results will be influenced by several different individual styles. The portfolio spans 2 distinct art units, indicating a moderate level of technical variety within the chemistry field.
HESTER, HOLLEY GRACE is the busiest examiner for this portfolio, currently holding 1 pending office action. This matches the workload of the other distinct examiners. With 3 pending office actions across 2 distinct art units, the company must ensure that its technical arguments are consistent while also addressing the specific requirements of each art unit. The 3 distinct examiners provide three separate points of contact, requiring practitioners to tailor their responses to each individual's specific concerns.
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 (33%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (67%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| HESTER, HOLLEY GRACE | 1 | 66.7% | +40.8% |
| HANYON, SAMANTHA LEE | 1 | 100.0% | +0.0% |
| KING, BRIAN M | 1 | 70.1% | +23.8% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18266023 | INSULATED CONTAINER, AND MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPH AND MAGNETOSPINOGRAPH INCLUDING SAME | KING, BRIAN M | 74d overdue |
| 18344355 | FUEL CELL SEPARATOR MATERIAL, METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING FUEL CELL SEPARATOR, AND FUEL CELL SEPARATOR | HANYON, SAMANTHA LEE | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18266023 | INSULATED CONTAINER, AND MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPH AND MAGNETOSPINOGRAPH INCLUDING SAME | KING, BRIAN M | 74d overdue |
| 18692451 | THERMOSETTING RESIN COMPOSITION, COVERLAY FILM, ADHESIVE SHEET, AND FLEXIBLE PRINTED CIRCUIT BOARD | HESTER, HOLLEY GRACE | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1725 | 1 |
| 3763 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18692451 | THERMOSETTING RESIN COMPOSITION, COVERLAY FILM, ADHESIVE SHEET, AND FLEXIBLE PRINTED CIRCUIT BOARD | HESTER, HOLLEY GRACE | — | §103Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 15, 2024 |
| 18344355 | FUEL CELL SEPARATOR MATERIAL, METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING FUEL CELL SEPARATOR, AND FUEL CELL SEPARATOR | HANYON, SAMANTHA LEE | 1725 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 29, 2023 |
| 18266023 | INSULATED CONTAINER, AND MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPH AND MAGNETOSPINOGRAPH INCLUDING SAME | KING, BRIAN M | 3763 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | 74d overdue | Pending | Jun 08, 2023 |
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