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 • 2 patents granted in the last 365 days
Hokuetsu Corporation holds a company patent portfolio in the Chemistry & Materials technology area. The portfolio currently features 1 pending office action. This prosecution is being managed by a lone distinct examiner and is situated within a lone distinct art unit. This indicates a concentrated effort in a specific area of chemistry or materials science. The company's focus on this technology area suggests a strategic interest in protecting its chemical innovations through a targeted patenting approach.
The busiest examiner, DAVIS, SHENG HAN, is currently handling 1 busiest examiner pending office action. This figure accounts for the entirety of the company's pending office actions. For practitioners, this means that the prosecution strategy is focused on a lone point of contact at the patent office. The limitation to a lone distinct art unit and a lone distinct examiner suggests that the company's current active intellectual property is not diversified across different examination groups, making the success of this 1 pending office action vital.
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 | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| DAVIS, SHENG HAN | 1 | 66.3% | +33.3% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17926415 | FILTER MEDIUM FOR AIR FILTERS AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING SAME | DAVIS, SHENG HAN | 32d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1732 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17926415 | FILTER MEDIUM FOR AIR FILTERS AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING SAME | DAVIS, SHENG HAN | 1732 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 32d overdue | Pending | Nov 18, 2022 |
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