Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
4 pending office actions • 1 art units • 4 examiners • 0 of 4 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 10 patents granted in the last 365 days
Daehan Solution Co. Ltd. has 4 pending office actions in the Chemistry & Materials technology area. These 4 actions are being reviewed by 4 distinct examiners, yet all of them are housed within 1 distinct art unit. This concentration in a single art unit implies a consistent set of supervisory guidelines and technical standards for the entire pending portfolio, even as individual examiners vary. For the company, this means that while the examiners are different, the technical expertise and internal policies governing the 4 pending office actions are likely uniform.
PATEL, AMOL H is the busiest examiner for the portfolio with 1 pending office action. Since there are 4 distinct examiners for the 4 pending office actions, the workload is distributed with each examiner handling 1 case. This scenario necessitates a strategy that addresses the specific nuances of 4 different examiners while operating within the unified environment of 1 distinct art unit. The company can benefit from the shared technical knowledge within this single art unit to streamline its responses across all pending matters.
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 | 1 (25%) |
| §102 only | 2 (50%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (25%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| PATEL, AMOL H | 1 | 85.4% | +9.5% |
| AKAKPO, DANY E | 1 | 86.7% | +13.4% |
| BEMKO, TARAS P | 1 | 84.4% | +19.3% |
| RUMMEL, JULIA L | 1 | 34.8% | +52.4% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18932733 | VEHICLE WIRING FIXTURE FOR MOUNTING WIRING INSTALLED BETWEEN A PILLAR AND PILLAR TRIM | PATEL, AMOL H | — |
| 18932079 | VEHICLE OVERHEAD CONSOLE BRACKET | AKAKPO, DANY E | — |
| 18909491 | FLOOR MAT HOOK FOR VEHICLE | BEMKO, TARAS P | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18517610 | VEHICLE HEADLINER HAVING HEAT INSULATING FUNCTION | RUMMEL, JULIA L | 18d overdue |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18517610 | VEHICLE HEADLINER HAVING HEAT INSULATING FUNCTION | RUMMEL, JULIA L | 18d overdue |
| 18932079 | VEHICLE OVERHEAD CONSOLE BRACKET | AKAKPO, DANY E | — |
| 18909491 | FLOOR MAT HOOK FOR VEHICLE | BEMKO, TARAS P | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1784 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18932733 | VEHICLE WIRING FIXTURE FOR MOUNTING WIRING INSTALLED BETWEEN A PILLAR AND PILLAR TRIM | PATEL, AMOL H | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 31, 2024 |
| 18932079 | VEHICLE OVERHEAD CONSOLE BRACKET | AKAKPO, DANY E | — | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 30, 2024 |
| 18909491 | FLOOR MAT HOOK FOR VEHICLE | BEMKO, TARAS P | — | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 08, 2024 |
| 18517610 | VEHICLE HEADLINER HAVING HEAT INSULATING FUNCTION | RUMMEL, JULIA L | 1784 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | 18d overdue | Pending | Nov 22, 2023 |
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