Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals • Chemistry & Materials
3 pending office actions • 3 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 3 patents granted in the last 365 days
Chang Chun Plastics Co. Ltd. currently manages 4 pending office actions within the Chemistry & Materials technology area. These actions are handled by 4 distinct examiners, meaning each pending matter is under the review of a different official. These examiners are situated across 3 distinct art units, suggesting some overlap in the administrative groups overseeing the portfolio.
RICHARD DAVID CHAMPION is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending office action. Since there are 4 distinct examiners for 4 pending office actions, the workload is distributed so that no single examiner holds more than one action. The 3 distinct art units involved indicate that at least two examiners are likely working within the same unit.
The 1 pending action with Champion is part of a broader prosecution effort in Chemistry & Materials. Practitioners should note that while there are 4 distinct examiners, the 3 distinct art units may share common internal policies. This structure requires balancing 4 individual examiner relationships across 3 different organizational units.
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 | 2 (67%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (33%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| CHAMPION, RICHARD DAVID | 1 | 45.7% | +11.9% |
| BOYLE, ROBERT C | 1 | 69.7% | -2.7% |
| DESTEFANO, AUDRA JEAN | 1 | 56.4% | +61.2% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18401857 | ALLYL-CONTAINING BISPHENOL RESIN | BOYLE, ROBERT C | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18143622 | MELAMINE-FORMALDEHYDE RESIN COMPOSITION, COATING COMPOSITION COMPRISING THE SAME, COATING LAYER, AND ITS APPLICATION | DESTEFANO, AUDRA JEAN | 9d overdue |
| 18445668 | PHOTOSENSITIVE RESIN LAMINATE AND APPLICATION THEREOF | CHAMPION, RICHARD DAVID | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1737 | 1 |
| 1623 | 1 |
| 1766 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18445668 | PHOTOSENSITIVE RESIN LAMINATE AND APPLICATION THEREOF | CHAMPION, RICHARD DAVID | 1737 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Feb 28, 2024 |
| 18401857 | ALLYL-CONTAINING BISPHENOL RESIN | BOYLE, ROBERT C | 1623 | §102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 02, 2024 |
| 18143622 | MELAMINE-FORMALDEHYDE RESIN COMPOSITION, COATING COMPOSITION COMPRISING THE SAME, COATING LAYER, AND ITS APPLICATION | DESTEFANO, AUDRA JEAN | 1766 | §103 | Final Rejection | 9d overdue | Pending | May 05, 2023 |
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