Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
4 pending office actions • 3 art units • 4 examiners • 0 of 4 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Howa Co. Ltd. currently has 4 pending office actions within the Chemistry & Materials technology area. These 4 actions are distributed among 4 distinct examiners, meaning each pending matter is being reviewed by a different individual. This creates a one to one ratio between pending actions and examiners for the company's current filings, ensuring that no single reviewer's perspective dominates the portfolio.
The workload is spread across 3 distinct art units, which is slightly fewer than the 4 distinct examiners. This indicates that at least two examiners are working within the same art unit. CATALANO, JACKSON RICHARD is the busiest examiner, though he only holds 1 pending office action. This confirms that the 4 pending actions are evenly divided across the 4 examiners. For the practitioner, managing 4 actions across 3 art units requires a coordinated strategy to address the requirements of 4 different examiners while operating within a relatively narrow administrative range in the Chemistry & Materials field.
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 (25%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 3 (75%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| CATALANO, JACKSON RICHARD | 1 | 100.0% | +0.0% |
| GUGLIOTTA, NICOLE T | 1 | 52.3% | +2.1% |
| MALEKZADEH, SEYED MASOUD | 1 | 67.1% | +31.9% |
| SWIER, WAYNE K. | 1 | 67.6% | +19.6% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18021088 | VEHICLE INTERIOR OR EXTERIOR MEMBER AND METHODS OF MANUFACTURING THEREOF | SWIER, WAYNE K. | 15d overdue |
| 18797641 | SERVICE HOLE COVER MEMBER FOR DOOR OF MOTOR VEHICLE | CATALANO, JACKSON RICHARD | — |
| 17781426 | BOARD-TYPE SUNSHADE AND SUNSHADE APPARATUS FOR MOTOR VEHICLES PROVIDED WITH BOARD-TYPE SUNSHADE | GUGLIOTTA, NICOLE T | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18021088 | VEHICLE INTERIOR OR EXTERIOR MEMBER AND METHODS OF MANUFACTURING THEREOF | SWIER, WAYNE K. | 15d overdue |
| 18588344 | VEHICLE INTERIOR AND EXTERIOR MEMBER, METHOD OF MANUFACTURING VEHICLE INTERIOR AND EXTERIOR MEMBER, AND PRESS MOLD USED FOR MANUFACTURING VEHICLE INTERIOR AND EXTERIOR MEMBER | MALEKZADEH, SEYED MASOUD | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1781 | 1 |
| 1754 | 1 |
| 1748 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18797641 | SERVICE HOLE COVER MEMBER FOR DOOR OF MOTOR VEHICLE | CATALANO, JACKSON RICHARD | — | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 08, 2024 |
| 17781426 | BOARD-TYPE SUNSHADE AND SUNSHADE APPARATUS FOR MOTOR VEHICLES PROVIDED WITH BOARD-TYPE SUNSHADE | GUGLIOTTA, NICOLE T | 1781 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 16, 2024 |
| 18588344 | VEHICLE INTERIOR AND EXTERIOR MEMBER, METHOD OF MANUFACTURING VEHICLE INTERIOR AND EXTERIOR MEMBER, AND PRESS MOLD USED FOR MANUFACTURING VEHICLE INTERIOR AND EXTERIOR MEMBER | MALEKZADEH, SEYED MASOUD | 1754 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 27, 2024 |
| 18021088 | VEHICLE INTERIOR OR EXTERIOR MEMBER AND METHODS OF MANUFACTURING THEREOF | SWIER, WAYNE K. | 1748 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | 15d overdue | Pending | Feb 13, 2023 |
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