Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
1 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Dai Nippon Toryo Co. Ltd. has 2 pending office actions in the Chemistry & Materials technology area. The portfolio's current workload is split between 2 distinct examiners and 2 distinct art units. GRUSBY, REBECCA LYNN is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending office action. This indicates that the company's pending intellectual property is technically diverse, requiring engagement with different specialized groups within the patent office.
Each office action represents a distinct interaction with no common examiner or art unit to provide a unified prosecution experience. Managing 2 pending office actions across 2 distinct art units requires a strategy that accounts for different technical standards and examiner expectations. This decentralized profile reduces the risk of a single point of failure but increases the complexity of maintaining a consistent prosecution approach. The presence of 2 distinct examiners ensures that the company's innovations are being vetted by multiple sets of eyes in the Chemistry & Materials sector.
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 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| GRUSBY, REBECCA LYNN | 1 | 32.3% | +41.8% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18239943 | COATED BODY | GRUSBY, REBECCA LYNN | 25d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1785 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18239943 | COATED BODY | GRUSBY, REBECCA LYNN | 1785 | §103 | Final Rejection | 25d overdue | Pending | Aug 30, 2023 |
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