Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
3 pending office actions • 1 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 3 patents granted in the last 365 days
Dana Canada Corporation has 3 pending office actions in the Chemistry & Materials technology area. These actions are handled by 3 distinct examiners but are concentrated within only 1 distinct art unit. This suggests that while multiple examiners are involved, the technical scope of the filings is very consistent. The use of 3 distinct examiners for 3 pending actions ensures that the company's progress is not dependent on the discretion of a single individual, even though all matters fall under the same art unit's jurisdiction.
JESSE JAMES EFYMOW is the busiest examiner, managing 1 busiest examiner pending action. This accounts for 1 of the 3 pending office actions currently active for the company. The use of 1 distinct art unit for all 3 pending actions indicates a highly unified examination environment despite the involvement of 3 distinct examiners. Practitioners can leverage this consistency to apply successful arguments from one pending action to the others, provided they are tailored to the preferences of each of the 3 distinct examiners.
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 |
|---|---|
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 3 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| EFYMOW, JESSE JAMES | 1 | 87.0% | +37.5% |
| OMORI, MARY I | 1 | 50.9% | +57.3% |
| CORONADO, KENDRA DAWN | 1 | — | — |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18621970 | BRAZED HYBRID ALUMINUM/COPPER HEAT EXCHANGERS | OMORI, MARY I | 6d |
| 18645262 | ELECTRIC ENERGY STORAGE DEVICE WITH DUAL THERMAL CONTROL AND ASSOCIATED VEHICLE | EFYMOW, JESSE JAMES | — |
| 18507754 | SYSTEMS FOR A BATTERY | CORONADO, KENDRA DAWN | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18621970 | BRAZED HYBRID ALUMINUM/COPPER HEAT EXCHANGERS | OMORI, MARY I | 6d |
| 18645262 | ELECTRIC ENERGY STORAGE DEVICE WITH DUAL THERMAL CONTROL AND ASSOCIATED VEHICLE | EFYMOW, JESSE JAMES | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1784 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18645262 | ELECTRIC ENERGY STORAGE DEVICE WITH DUAL THERMAL CONTROL AND ASSOCIATED VEHICLE | EFYMOW, JESSE JAMES | — | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 24, 2024 |
| 18621970 | BRAZED HYBRID ALUMINUM/COPPER HEAT EXCHANGERS | OMORI, MARY I | 1784 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | 6d | Pending | Mar 29, 2024 |
| 18507754 | SYSTEMS FOR A BATTERY | CORONADO, KENDRA DAWN | — | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 13, 2023 |
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