Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Chemistry & Materials • Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
3 pending office actions • 2 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 10 patents granted in the last 365 days
CHIYODA Corporation has 3 pending office actions within the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. These matters are assigned to 3 distinct examiners. The portfolio is active in 2 distinct art units. BROCKINGTON III, WILLIAM S is the busiest examiner for the company. This examiner is responsible for 1 busiest examiner pending action. The distribution of 3 pending office actions across 3 distinct examiners means that each case is being reviewed by a different person.
The concentration in 2 distinct art units shows that at least two cases are likely within the same technical group. BROCKINGTON III, WILLIAM S manages 1 busiest examiner pending action, which is consistent with the distributed nature of the portfolio. Practitioners can see that the company's current prosecution efforts in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area are spread across 3 distinct examiners and 2 distinct art units.
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 + other | 1 (33%) |
| §103 only | 1 (33%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| BROCKINGTON III, WILLIAM S | 1 | 42.2% | +54.9% |
| BAKSHI, PANCHAM | 1 | 76.8% | +30.2% |
| PO, MING CHEUNG | 1 | 37.7% | +13.7% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19160098 | DESIGN ASSISTANCE DEVICE, DESIGN ASSISTANCE PROGRAM AND DESIGN ASSISTANCE METHOD | BROCKINGTON III, WILLIAM S | — |
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 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19160098 | DESIGN ASSISTANCE DEVICE, DESIGN ASSISTANCE PROGRAM AND DESIGN ASSISTANCE METHOD | BROCKINGTON III, WILLIAM S | — |
| 18580296 | AROMATIC COMPOUND MANUFACTURING METHOD | BAKSHI, PANCHAM | — |
| 18024924 | PLATINUM-LOADED ALUMINA CATALYST, METHOD OF PRODUCING SAME, AND METHOD OF DEHYDROGENATING HYDROGENATED AROMATIC USING THE CATALYST | PO, MING CHEUNG | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3623 | 1 |
| 1771 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19160098 | DESIGN ASSISTANCE DEVICE, DESIGN ASSISTANCE PROGRAM AND DESIGN ASSISTANCE METHOD | BROCKINGTON III, WILLIAM S | 3623 | §101§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 27, 2025 |
| 18580296 | AROMATIC COMPOUND MANUFACTURING METHOD | BAKSHI, PANCHAM | — | §102§103DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 18, 2024 |
| 18024924 | PLATINUM-LOADED ALUMINA CATALYST, METHOD OF PRODUCING SAME, AND METHOD OF DEHYDROGENATING HYDROGENATED AROMATIC USING THE CATALYST | PO, MING CHEUNG | 1771 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 06, 2023 |
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