Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
21 pending office actions • 14 art units • 20 examiners • 0 of 21 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 27 patents granted in the last 365 days
Arkray Inc. maintains a robust portfolio with 22 pending office actions in the Chemistry & Materials technology area. This high volume of activity is distributed across 21 distinct examiners and 15 distinct art units, reflecting a broad and complex prosecution strategy. The busiest examiner, QIAN, SHIZHI, is managing 2 busiest examiner pending actions.
The presence of 15 distinct art units suggests that the company's chemistry and materials innovations span a wide range of specialized sub-fields. With 21 distinct examiners involved, the company must navigate a diverse array of examination styles and requirements. Because QIAN, SHIZHI only handles 2 of the 22 pending office actions, the portfolio is well-diversified, and no single examiner's decisions can significantly impact the overall success of the company's current patenting efforts. This level of distribution across 15 distinct art units typically requires a highly coordinated legal strategy to ensure consistency. Practitioners managing such a large number of pending matters must be prepared for a high frequency of USPTO correspondence and varying timelines across the 21 distinct examiners.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 6 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. 6 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 |
|---|---|
| §101 only | 1 (5%) |
| §101 + other | 5 (24%) |
| §103 only | 4 (19%) |
| §102 only | 1 (5%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 10 (48%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| QIAN, SHIZHI | 2 | 61.8% | +47.9% |
| HEIBER, SHANTELL LAKETA | 1 | 77.4% | +19.8% |
| AHSAN, SYED M | 1 | 73.1% | +22.3% |
| NGUYEN, LEON VIET Q | 1 | 85.3% | +9.9% |
| GORDON, BRIAN R | 1 | 65.2% | +18.9% |
| GZYBOWSKI, MICHAEL STANLEY | 1 | 68.3% | +52.0% |
| MENON, KRISHNAN S | 1 | 59.7% | +11.7% |
| CAIN, JENNIFER LYNN | 1 | 45.0% | +70.0% |
| WHATLEY, BENJAMIN R | 1 | 66.7% | +68.5% |
| SUN, CAITLYN MINGYUN | 1 | 63.5% | +11.9% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18667491 | Determining Material Component Concentrations In A Sample | NGUYEN, LEON VIET Q | — |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 8 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18108819 | ELECTRODE FOR MEASURING GLUCOSE AND ELECTROCHEMICAL SENSOR INCLUDING THE SAME | JANG, CHRISTIAN Y | 36d overdue |
| 16091641 | Method for Determining Stage of Periodontal Disease | MARTIN, PAUL C | 16d overdue |
| 18123480 | METHOD OF MEASURING HEMOGLOBIN F | PEO, KARA M | 5d overdue |
| 18383317 | SAMPLE ANALYSIS METHOD, SAMPLE PRODUCTION METHOD, DILUENT FOR DILUTING ALBUMIN- AND y-GLOBULIN-CONTAINING SAMPLE, AND SAMPLE ANALYSIS KIT | QIAN, SHIZHI | 14d |
| 18468585 | QUALITY CONTROL SUBSTANCE FOR USE IN THE ANALYSIS OF LEUKOCYTES | COLE, HOUSTON DAVID | 62d |
| 18930395 | ELECTROPHORESIS UNIT, COMPONENT ANALYSIS DEVICE, ELECTROPHORESIS METHOD | QIAN, SHIZHI | — |
| 18910833 | MEASUREMENT SYSTEM | HEIBER, SHANTELL LAKETA | — |
| 18662069 | ANALYSIS SYSTEM | GORDON, BRIAN R | — |
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 8 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18383357 | SAMPLE ANALYSIS METHOD, CAPILLARY ELECTROPHORESIS SOLUTION, AND SAMPLE ANALYSIS KIT | SUN, CAITLYN MINGYUN | 24d overdue |
| 18383317 | SAMPLE ANALYSIS METHOD, SAMPLE PRODUCTION METHOD, DILUENT FOR DILUTING ALBUMIN- AND y-GLOBULIN-CONTAINING SAMPLE, AND SAMPLE ANALYSIS KIT | QIAN, SHIZHI | 14d |
| 18930395 | ELECTROPHORESIS UNIT, COMPONENT ANALYSIS DEVICE, ELECTROPHORESIS METHOD | QIAN, SHIZHI | — |
| 18910833 | MEASUREMENT SYSTEM | HEIBER, SHANTELL LAKETA | — |
| 18910852 | MEASUREMENT SYSTEM | AHSAN, SYED M | — |
| 18662069 | ANALYSIS SYSTEM | GORDON, BRIAN R | — |
| 18658924 | MEASUREMENT METHOD AND MEASUREMENT SYSTEM | GZYBOWSKI, MICHAEL STANLEY | — |
| 18627829 | METHOD OF TREATING MEASUREMENT FLOW CHANNEL AND LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY DEVICE | MENON, KRISHNAN S | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2663 | 2 |
| 1795 | 2 |
| 1796 | 2 |
| 2415 | 1 |
| 2491 | 1 |
| 1655 | 1 |
| 1798 | 1 |
| 1758 | 1 |
| 1797 | 1 |
| 1633 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18930395 | ELECTROPHORESIS UNIT, COMPONENT ANALYSIS DEVICE, ELECTROPHORESIS METHOD | QIAN, SHIZHI | — | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 29, 2024 |
| 18910833 | MEASUREMENT SYSTEM | HEIBER, SHANTELL LAKETA | 2415 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 09, 2024 |
| 18910852 | MEASUREMENT SYSTEM | AHSAN, SYED M | 2491 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 09, 2024 |
| 18667491 | Determining Material Component Concentrations In A Sample | NGUYEN, LEON VIET Q | 2663 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | May 17, 2024 |
| 18662069 | ANALYSIS SYSTEM | GORDON, BRIAN R | — | §102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 13, 2024 |
| 18658924 | MEASUREMENT METHOD AND MEASUREMENT SYSTEM | GZYBOWSKI, MICHAEL STANLEY | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 08, 2024 |
| 18627829 | METHOD OF TREATING MEASUREMENT FLOW CHANNEL AND LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY DEVICE | MENON, KRISHNAN S | — | §102§103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Apr 05, 2024 |
| 18603803 | PHOSPHODIESTERASE 5 INHIBITOR | CAIN, JENNIFER LYNN | 1655 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 13, 2024 |
| 18494729 | MEASUREMENT SYSTEM | WHATLEY, BENJAMIN R | 1798 | §101§103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Oct 25, 2023 |
| 18383317 | SAMPLE ANALYSIS METHOD, SAMPLE PRODUCTION METHOD, DILUENT FOR DILUTING ALBUMIN- AND y-GLOBULIN-CONTAINING SAMPLE, AND SAMPLE ANALYSIS KIT | QIAN, SHIZHI | 1795 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | 14d | Pending | Oct 24, 2023 |
| 18383357 | SAMPLE ANALYSIS METHOD, CAPILLARY ELECTROPHORESIS SOLUTION, AND SAMPLE ANALYSIS KIT | SUN, CAITLYN MINGYUN | 1795 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 24d overdue | Pending | Oct 24, 2023 |
| 18468585 | QUALITY CONTROL SUBSTANCE FOR USE IN THE ANALYSIS OF LEUKOCYTES | COLE, HOUSTON DAVID | 1758 | §101§112 | Non-Final OA | 62d | Pending | Sep 15, 2023 |
| 18467439 | ACCURACY MANAGEMENT METHOD, HOLDING TOOL, AND MEASUREMENT DEVICE | LIMBAUGH, KATHRYN ELIZABETH | 1797 | §101§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Sep 14, 2023 |
| 18323196 | QUALITY CONTROL SUBSTANCE USED IN URINE SEDIMENT ANALYZER | WESTON, ALYSSA G | 1633 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | May 24, 2023 |
| 18323170 | PRESERVATION LIQUID FOR CALCIUM OXALATE DIHYDRATE CRYSTALS AND PRESERVATION METHOD | KUMAR, SRILAKSHMI K | 1796 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 24, 2023 |
| 18133591 | IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE, DATA MANAGEMENT DEVICE, IMAGE PROCESSING SYSTEM, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY STORAGE MEDIUM | ORANGE, DAVID BENJAMIN | 2663 | §102 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Apr 12, 2023 |
| 18123477 | METHOD OF MEASURING HEMOGLOBIN F | BERKELEY, EMILY R | 1796 | §101§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 20, 2023 |
| 18123480 | METHOD OF MEASURING HEMOGLOBIN F | PEO, KARA M | 1777 | §101§103 | Final Rejection | 5d overdue | Pending | Mar 20, 2023 |
| 18108819 | ELECTRODE FOR MEASURING GLUCOSE AND ELECTROCHEMICAL SENSOR INCLUDING THE SAME | JANG, CHRISTIAN Y | 3791 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | 36d overdue | Pending | Feb 13, 2023 |
| 17511794 | Analytical Tool and Analytical System | OSMAN, SOMMER YOUSEF | 1794 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Oct 27, 2021 |
| 16091641 | Method for Determining Stage of Periodontal Disease | MARTIN, PAUL C | 1653 | §101 | Final Rejection | 16d overdue | Pending | Oct 05, 2018 |
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