Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
1 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 6 patents granted in the last 365 days
Hiroshima University currently manages 1 pending office action within the Chemistry & Materials technology area. This prosecution activity involves a distinct examiner and is situated within 1 distinct art unit. CHEN, BRET P is identified as the busiest examiner for the university, currently overseeing the pending matter.
The concentration of the portfolio under a distinct examiner and art unit suggests a highly specialized and localized prosecution effort. Because CHEN, BRET P is responsible for the pending office action, the university's immediate patent strategy in the Chemistry & Materials sector relies entirely on the review and timeline of this specific official. This singular focus allows for a dedicated approach to the matter but also means that the university's outcomes are tied to the individual tendencies of the examiner.
Practitioners should note that the presence of a distinct art unit indicates that the university's current filings are not technically diverse at this stage. The pending office action assigned to CHEN, BRET P represents the entirety of the company's active workload in this profile. Monitoring the specific requirements and past decisions of the official will be critical for successfully navigating the matter currently on the docket.
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 |
|---|---|
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| CHEN, BRET P | 1 | 84.5% | +16.4% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18879400 | METHOD FOR PRODUCING SILICON FILM AND SILICON FILM | CHEN, BRET P | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18879400 | METHOD FOR PRODUCING SILICON FILM AND SILICON FILM | CHEN, BRET P | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1718 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18879400 | METHOD FOR PRODUCING SILICON FILM AND SILICON FILM | CHEN, BRET P | 1718 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Dec 27, 2024 |
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