Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
2 pending office actions • 1 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 3 patents granted in the last 365 days
Delta Electronics (Japan) Inc. is active in the Chemistry & Materials technology area. The company currently has 2 pending office actions. These actions are assigned to 2 distinct examiners but are both located within 1 distinct art unit. Tszfung Jackie Chan is the busiest examiner, managing 1 pending office action.
The workload of 2 pending office actions is split between 2 distinct examiners. Because both actions are in 1 distinct art unit, the technical evaluation should remain consistent across the portfolio. Tszfung Jackie Chan is responsible for 1 of the 2 current pending matters.
Practitioners should focus on maintaining a unified technical narrative within the 1 distinct art unit while addressing the individual requirements of Tszfung Jackie Chan and the other assigned examiner. The Chemistry & Materials field requires precise arguments that satisfy the standards of this single department. Successfully managing these 2 pending office actions involves balancing the individual examiner styles with the unified standards of the 1 distinct art unit.
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 (50%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (50%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| CHAN, TSZFUNG JACKIE | 1 | 75.6% | +18.9% |
| HOBAN, MATTHEW E | 1 | 60.4% | +25.3% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18399386 | INDUCTOR, AND ELECTRONIC AND ELECTRIC EQUIPMENT | CHAN, TSZFUNG JACKIE | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18399386 | INDUCTOR, AND ELECTRONIC AND ELECTRIC EQUIPMENT | CHAN, TSZFUNG JACKIE | — |
| 18363561 | SOFT MAGNETIC MATERIAL AND ELECTRONIC COMPONENT | HOBAN, MATTHEW E | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1734 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18399386 | INDUCTOR, AND ELECTRONIC AND ELECTRIC EQUIPMENT | CHAN, TSZFUNG JACKIE | — | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 28, 2023 |
| 18363561 | SOFT MAGNETIC MATERIAL AND ELECTRONIC COMPONENT | HOBAN, MATTHEW E | 1734 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Aug 01, 2023 |
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