Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals • Chemistry & Materials
6 pending office actions • 4 art units • 5 examiners • 0 of 6 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 5 patents granted in the last 365 days
Gunze Limited is managing 6 pending office actions in the Chemistry & Materials technology area. These matters are spread across 5 distinct examiners and 4 distinct art units. The involvement of 4 art units suggests that the company's chemistry-related filings are diverse enough to fall under several different supervisory groups at the patent office. This dispersion requires a prosecution strategy that accounts for multiple administrative environments and sets of examiner preferences.
The busiest examiner for this portfolio is CHEN, VIVIAN, who is responsible for 2 pending office actions. With 6 total pending actions and 5 distinct examiners, Chen is the only individual handling more than a single matter. The other examiners are each responsible for a single pending action. This concentration under Chen makes her the most frequent point of contact for the company's active Chemistry & Materials applications, though she still only handles a portion of the total workload.
Managing these 6 pending actions across 5 distinct examiners and 4 distinct art units presents a decentralized prosecution landscape. While CHEN, VIVIAN oversees 2 actions, the remaining matters are handled by separate individuals. The 4 distinct art units involved further indicate that the technical subject matter is categorized into several different specialized groups within the patent office.
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 (67%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (33%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| CHEN, VIVIAN | 2 | 56.7% | +29.1% |
| TENTONI, LEO B | 1 | 81.8% | +10.1% |
| KIM, DANIELLE A | 1 | 37.1% | +56.3% |
| GRUSBY, REBECCA LYNN | 1 | 32.3% | +41.8% |
| KUMAR, SRILAKSHMI K | 1 | 49.7% | +15.5% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18780301 | THERMOPLASTIC FLUORORESIN TUBE | TENTONI, LEO B | — |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18293922 | HEAT-SHRINKABLE FILM | GRUSBY, REBECCA LYNN | 132d overdue |
| 18294022 | HEAT SHRINKABLE FILM AND MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREOF | CHEN, VIVIAN | — |
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 6 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18293922 | HEAT-SHRINKABLE FILM | GRUSBY, REBECCA LYNN | 132d overdue |
| 18285678 | METHOD FOR PRODUCING RESIN FILM | KUMAR, SRILAKSHMI K | 21d |
| 18780301 | THERMOPLASTIC FLUORORESIN TUBE | TENTONI, LEO B | — |
| 18708480 | BONE JOINT MATERIAL, AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING BONE JOINT MATERIAL | KIM, DANIELLE A | — |
| 18294002 | HEAT SHRINKABLE FILM AND MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREOF | CHEN, VIVIAN | — |
| 18294022 | HEAT SHRINKABLE FILM AND MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREOF | CHEN, VIVIAN | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1787 | 2 |
| 1613 | 1 |
| 1785 | 1 |
| 1746 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18780301 | THERMOPLASTIC FLUORORESIN TUBE | TENTONI, LEO B | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 22, 2024 |
| 18708480 | BONE JOINT MATERIAL, AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING BONE JOINT MATERIAL | KIM, DANIELLE A | 1613 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | May 08, 2024 |
| 18293922 | HEAT-SHRINKABLE FILM | GRUSBY, REBECCA LYNN | 1785 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | 132d overdue | Pending | Jan 31, 2024 |
| 18294002 | HEAT SHRINKABLE FILM AND MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREOF | CHEN, VIVIAN | 1787 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 31, 2024 |
| 18294022 | HEAT SHRINKABLE FILM AND MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREOF | CHEN, VIVIAN | 1787 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 31, 2024 |
| 18285678 | METHOD FOR PRODUCING RESIN FILM | KUMAR, SRILAKSHMI K | 1746 | §103 | Final Rejection | 21d | Pending | Oct 05, 2023 |
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