Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
5 pending office actions • 2 art units • 5 examiners • 0 of 5 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 6 patents granted in the last 365 days
Asahi Kasei Battery Separator Corporation currently manages 6 pending office actions within the Chemistry & Materials technology area. These matters are distributed among 5 distinct examiners and 3 distinct art units, showing the prosecution landscape. The busiest examiner, LYNCH, VICTORIA HOM, is responsible for 2 pending office actions.
The 2 pending office actions assigned to LYNCH, VICTORIA HOM are part of the company's total volume of 6 pending office actions. The remaining actions are split among the other distinct examiners. This distribution across 3 distinct art units suggests that the company's Chemistry & Materials innovations span several specialized sub-fields. Practitioners should coordinate across these 3 distinct art units and 5 distinct examiners to ensure consistent arguments across the portfolio. This variety in examiners and units requires a strategy that accounts for multiple perspectives within the patent office.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 2 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 | 3 (60%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (40%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| LYNCH, VICTORIA HOM | 1 | 86.2% | +10.0% |
| WALLS, CYNTHIA KYUNG SOO | 1 | 71.6% | -0.8% |
| RUTISER, CLAIRE A | 1 | 41.8% | +21.9% |
| MCCLURE, JOSHUA PATRICK | 1 | 51.6% | +10.4% |
| HILTON, ALBERT MICHAEL | 1 | 62.4% | +43.1% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18618866 | Multilayer Porous Membrane | LYNCH, VICTORIA HOM | — |
| 17765190 | Polyolefin Microporous Membrane | MCCLURE, JOSHUA PATRICK | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17967012 | Lithium Ion Battery Using Crosslinkable Separator | RUTISER, CLAIRE A | 71d overdue |
| 17624914 | Multilayer Porous Membrane | HILTON, ALBERT MICHAEL | 22d |
| 18618866 | Multilayer Porous Membrane | LYNCH, VICTORIA HOM | — |
| 17765190 | Polyolefin Microporous Membrane | MCCLURE, JOSHUA PATRICK | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1751 | 2 |
| 1723 | 2 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18618866 | Multilayer Porous Membrane | LYNCH, VICTORIA HOM | — | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 27, 2024 |
| 18034473 | Siloxane Dispersed Crosslinked Separator | WALLS, CYNTHIA KYUNG SOO | 1751 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Apr 28, 2023 |
| 17967012 | Lithium Ion Battery Using Crosslinkable Separator | RUTISER, CLAIRE A | 1751 | §103 | Final Rejection | 71d overdue | Pending | Oct 17, 2022 |
| 17765190 | Polyolefin Microporous Membrane | MCCLURE, JOSHUA PATRICK | 1723 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Mar 30, 2022 |
| 17624914 | Multilayer Porous Membrane | HILTON, ALBERT MICHAEL | 1723 | §103 | Final Rejection | 22d | Pending | Jan 05, 2022 |
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