Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Dow-Mitsui Polychemicals Co. Ltd. has 2 pending office actions in Chemistry & Materials. These are handled by 2 distinct examiners in a matching number of distinct art units. This distribution suggests that the company's current filings are being reviewed by different technical specialists, which can lead to independent prosecution timelines for each matter.
DUCHENEAUX, FRANK D is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending office action. The pending office actions are divided among the distinct examiners, ensuring that no single individual's perspective dominates the portfolio. For the practitioner, this decentralized review process requires managing multiple examiner relationships simultaneously. The use of multiple art units indicates that the pending matters likely cover different specialized areas within the broader field of chemistry and materials.
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 | 2 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| DUCHENEAUX, FRANK D | 1 | 45.0% | -13.9% |
| BLAND, ALICIA | 1 | 50.6% | +12.8% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18281001 | RESIN COMPOSITION FOR SKIN PACK, FILM FOR SKIN PACK, METHOD FOR PRODUCING FILM FOR SKIN PACK, SKIN PACK PACKAGING MATERIAL, AND SKIN PACK PACKAGE | BLAND, ALICIA | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1788 | 1 |
| 1759 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18282253 | HEAT SEALABLE RESIN COMPOSITION, HEAT SEALABLE MATERIAL, PACKAGING MATERIAL, LID MATERIAL AND PACKAGING CONTAINER | DUCHENEAUX, FRANK D | 1788 | §103 | Final Rejection | 28d | Pending | Sep 15, 2023 |
| 18281001 | RESIN COMPOSITION FOR SKIN PACK, FILM FOR SKIN PACK, METHOD FOR PRODUCING FILM FOR SKIN PACK, SKIN PACK PACKAGING MATERIAL, AND SKIN PACK PACKAGE | BLAND, ALICIA | 1759 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 08, 2023 |
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