Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Chemistry & Materials • Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
5 pending office actions • 5 art units • 5 examiners • 0 of 5 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 6 patents granted in the last 365 days
Furukawa Co. Ltd. currently has 5 pending office actions in the Chemistry & Materials technology area. These actions are spread across 5 distinct examiners and 5 distinct art units. MOUDOU, EILEEN QI-YUN is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending office action. The distribution of 5 pending office actions across 5 distinct art units suggests a diverse range of technical subject matter within the portfolio.
Because each of the 5 distinct examiners handles 1 pending office action, the company faces a variety of examiner perspectives. This distribution requires the company to manage 5 distinct examiner relationships simultaneously. The fact that 5 pending office actions are spread across 5 distinct art units indicates that the company's current prosecution is not localized under any single regulatory group.
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 | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| MOUDOU, EILEEN QI-YUN | 1 | 66.7% | +0.0% |
| WILLS, MONIQUE M | 1 | 85.8% | -30.6% |
| KUMAR, KALYANAVENKA K | 1 | 72.9% | +18.3% |
| ZEMUI, NATHANAEL T | 1 | 56.0% | +24.1% |
| HIGGINS, KATHERINE NICOLE | 1 | 64.4% | +22.0% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18254187 | SULFIDE-BASED INORGANIC SOLID ELECTROLYTE MATERIAL, SOLID ELECTROLYTE, SOLID ELECTROLYTE MEMBRANE, AND LITHIUM ION BATTERY | WILLS, MONIQUE M | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18561885 | LITHIUM SULFIDE PRODUCING DEVICE AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING LITHIUM SULFIDE | MOUDOU, EILEEN QI-YUN | — |
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 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17766043 | METHOD OF MANUFACTURING INORGANIC MATERIAL | HIGGINS, KATHERINE NICOLE | 12d |
| 18031725 | METHOD OF SEPARATING INORGANIC MATERIAL FROM CRUSHING BALLS | KUMAR, KALYANAVENKA K | — |
| 17766120 | METHOD OF MANUFACTURING SULFIDE-BASED INORGANIC SOLID ELECTROLYTE MATERIAL | ZEMUI, NATHANAEL T | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1738 | 1 |
| 1723 | 1 |
| 3653 | 1 |
| 1727 | 1 |
| 1728 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18561885 | LITHIUM SULFIDE PRODUCING DEVICE AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING LITHIUM SULFIDE | MOUDOU, EILEEN QI-YUN | 1738 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 17, 2023 |
| 18254187 | SULFIDE-BASED INORGANIC SOLID ELECTROLYTE MATERIAL, SOLID ELECTROLYTE, SOLID ELECTROLYTE MEMBRANE, AND LITHIUM ION BATTERY | WILLS, MONIQUE M | 1723 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 24, 2023 |
| 18031725 | METHOD OF SEPARATING INORGANIC MATERIAL FROM CRUSHING BALLS | KUMAR, KALYANAVENKA K | 3653 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 13, 2023 |
| 17766120 | METHOD OF MANUFACTURING SULFIDE-BASED INORGANIC SOLID ELECTROLYTE MATERIAL | ZEMUI, NATHANAEL T | 1727 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 01, 2022 |
| 17766043 | METHOD OF MANUFACTURING INORGANIC MATERIAL | HIGGINS, KATHERINE NICOLE | 1728 | §103 | Final Rejection | 12d | Pending | Apr 01, 2022 |
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