Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
5 pending office actions • 3 art units • 5 examiners • 0 of 5 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 4 patents granted in the last 365 days
Dowa Metaltech Co. Ltd. manages 5 pending office actions within the Chemistry & Materials technology area. These actions are distributed among 5 distinct examiners and 3 distinct art units. This distribution shows that the company's current prosecution workload is spread across a variety of examiners and technical groups.
The busiest examiner is HUANG, CHENG YUAN, who is responsible for 1 pending office action. Because there are 5 distinct examiners for the active matters, the workload is perfectly balanced. No single examiner holds a disproportionate amount of the company's pending cases across the 5 pending office actions.
The 3 distinct art units involved indicate that the company's Chemistry & Materials applications cover several different technical sub-fields. Practitioners should be prepared to address the specific requirements of these 3 art units while managing 5 distinct examiners. The active office actions represent a significant and diverse portfolio for the company, with 1 examiner assigned per case.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 2 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 | 4 (80%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (20%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| HUANG, CHENG YUAN | 1 | 39.0% | +22.8% |
| KRUPICKA, ADAM C | 1 | 62.1% | +27.0% |
| WANG, XIAOBEI | 1 | 65.4% | +48.3% |
| GAITONDE, MEGHA MEHTA | 1 | 40.5% | +35.6% |
| JOHNSON, JONATHAN J | 1 | 38.3% | -6.1% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18010239 | Cu-Ni-Al-BASED COPPER ALLOY PLATE MATERIAL, METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING SAME, AND ELECTROCONDUCTIVE SPRING MEMBER | JOHNSON, JONATHAN J | — |
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 4 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18843811 | COMPOSITE MATERIAL, METHOD FOR PRODUCING THE COMPOSITE MATERIAL, AND TERMINAL | KRUPICKA, ADAM C | 19d |
| 18572459 | SILVER-PLATED PRODUCT AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING SAME | WANG, XIAOBEI | 27d |
| 18844215 | COPPER-CERAMIC BONDED SUBSTRATE AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING THE SAME | HUANG, CHENG YUAN | — |
| 18279089 | ALUMINUM-CERAMIC BONDED SUBSTRATE AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING THE SAME | GAITONDE, MEGHA MEHTA | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1784 | 2 |
| 1781 | 1 |
| 1700 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18844215 | COPPER-CERAMIC BONDED SUBSTRATE AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING THE SAME | HUANG, CHENG YUAN | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 05, 2024 |
| 18843811 | COMPOSITE MATERIAL, METHOD FOR PRODUCING THE COMPOSITE MATERIAL, AND TERMINAL | KRUPICKA, ADAM C | 1784 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 19d | Pending | Sep 04, 2024 |
| 18572459 | SILVER-PLATED PRODUCT AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING SAME | WANG, XIAOBEI | 1784 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 27d | Pending | Dec 20, 2023 |
| 18279089 | ALUMINUM-CERAMIC BONDED SUBSTRATE AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING THE SAME | GAITONDE, MEGHA MEHTA | 1781 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Aug 28, 2023 |
| 18010239 | Cu-Ni-Al-BASED COPPER ALLOY PLATE MATERIAL, METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING SAME, AND ELECTROCONDUCTIVE SPRING MEMBER | JOHNSON, JONATHAN J | 1700 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 14, 2022 |
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