Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals • Chemistry & Materials
5 pending office actions • 2 art units • 5 examiners • 0 of 5 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 3 patents granted in the last 365 days
Hodogaya Chemical Co., Ltd. currently has 5 pending office actions within the Chemistry & Materials technology area. These actions are spread across 5 distinct examiners, which is a high level of examiner diversity for a portfolio of this size. Despite the number of examiners, the prosecution is concentrated in only 2 distinct art units. SAMSELL, RILLA MARIE is the busiest examiner, responsible for 1 pending action, meaning the workload is perfectly distributed among the various reviewers.
This prosecution profile is unique because every pending office action is being reviewed by a different individual. This suggests that Hodogaya Chemical Co., Ltd. will receive a wide variety of feedback, which can be both a challenge and an opportunity for refining claim scope. The concentration in 2 distinct art units provides some organizational consistency, but the 5 distinct examiners will each bring their own perspective to the matters. Practitioners must be prepared to handle different sets of examiner preferences simultaneously.
In the Chemistry & Materials field, the fact that the busiest examiner holds only 1 pending action means that no single examiner dominates the portfolio's future. This diversification reduces the risk associated with any one examiner's tendencies. However, with the pending office actions located in only 2 distinct art units, practitioners should look for overarching trends within those specific units to ensure a cohesive strategy across the entire portfolio.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 3 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.
Every pending office action with a known statutory deadline, placed on a days-until-due axis. Dots left of Today are overdue; the further right, the more runway. Cases that share a deadline window stack vertically. 3 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.
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 | 3 (60%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (40%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| SAMSELL, RILLA MARIE | 1 | 70.8% | +4.6% |
| CLAUDIO VAZQUEZ, ADRIANA PAOLA | 1 | — | — |
| NGUYEN, LUCAS QUOC | 1 | 100.0% | +0.0% |
| DEGUIRE, SEAN M | 1 | 60.7% | +28.7% |
| GARRETT, DAWN L | 1 | 72.6% | +10.3% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18283121 | COMPOUND HAVING SULFONATE GROUP AND PHOTOELECTRIC CONVERSION ELEMENT USING SAME | SAMSELL, RILLA MARIE | 8d overdue |
| 18273421 | COMPOUND AND ORGANIC ELECTROLUMINESCENT ELEMENT USING SAID COMPOUND | NGUYEN, LUCAS QUOC | — |
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 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17799612 | ORGANIC ELECTROLUMINESCENT ELEMENT | DEGUIRE, SEAN M | 12d |
| 17788976 | ARYLAMINE COMPOUND AND ORGANIC ELECTROLUMINESCENT ELEMENT | GARRETT, DAWN L | 68d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1786 | 2 |
| 1624 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18283121 | COMPOUND HAVING SULFONATE GROUP AND PHOTOELECTRIC CONVERSION ELEMENT USING SAME | SAMSELL, RILLA MARIE | 1624 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | 8d overdue | Pending | Sep 20, 2023 |
| 18279697 | HIGH MOLECULAR WEIGHT COMPOUNDS HAVING INDENO-DIBENZOHETEROLE STRUCTURE AS PARTIAL STRUCTURE, AND ORGANIC ELECTROLUMINESCENT ELEMENTS COMPRISING SAID HIGH MOLECULAR WEIGHT COMPOUNDS | CLAUDIO VAZQUEZ, ADRIANA PAOLA | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 31, 2023 |
| 18273421 | COMPOUND AND ORGANIC ELECTROLUMINESCENT ELEMENT USING SAID COMPOUND | NGUYEN, LUCAS QUOC | — | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 20, 2023 |
| 17799612 | ORGANIC ELECTROLUMINESCENT ELEMENT | DEGUIRE, SEAN M | 1786 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 12d | Pending | Aug 12, 2022 |
| 17788976 | ARYLAMINE COMPOUND AND ORGANIC ELECTROLUMINESCENT ELEMENT | GARRETT, DAWN L | 1786 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 68d | Pending | Jun 24, 2022 |
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