Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
1 pending office actions • 0 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 4 patents granted in the last 365 days
Chugoku Marine Paints Ltd. currently has 1 pending office action in its patent portfolio. This prosecution activity involves 1 distinct examiner, concentrating the company's current USPTO interactions. NELSON, MICHAEL B is the busiest examiner for the portfolio, holding responsibility for 1 busiest examiner pending office action.
The data indicates that there are 0 distinct art units associated with the current pending actions. This suggests that the application may be in a preliminary stage or transitioning between administrative groups. With only 1 distinct examiner involved, the prosecution path is currently singular and focused on the feedback from a single individual.
Practitioners should prepare for a highly centralized review process where all feedback originates from the same source. Since the 1 pending office action is the only active matter, the company can dedicate its full attention to the requirements of the busiest examiner. The absence of multiple art units simplifies the administrative overhead for this specific portfolio.
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 (100%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| NELSON, MICHAEL B | 1 | 21.2% | +37.0% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18857494 | ANTIFOULING COATING COMPOSITION | NELSON, MICHAEL B | — |
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 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18857494 | ANTIFOULING COATING COMPOSITION | NELSON, MICHAEL B | — |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18857494 | ANTIFOULING COATING COMPOSITION | NELSON, MICHAEL B | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 17, 2024 |
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