Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
3 pending office actions • 1 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Ichikawa Co. Ltd. is managing 2 pending office actions in the Chemistry & Materials technology area. These 2 actions are assigned to 2 distinct examiners, yet they are both within 1 distinct art unit. This structure suggests that while the company is interacting with different individuals, the technical review is centralized within a single administrative division. This arrangement allows the applicant to focus on the specific examination guidelines of 1 unit.
ADHLAKHA, RITA P is the busiest examiner for the company, responsible for the 1 busiest examiner pending action. With 2 pending office actions and 2 distinct examiners in 1 distinct art unit, the applicant can look for consistency in the unit's approach to chemistry and materials. The prosecution strategy should account for the individual styles of the examiners while adhering to the overarching standards of the art unit. Practitioners can leverage this centralized oversight to ensure that arguments presented to ADHLAKHA, RITA P are consistent with the technical expectations of the broader administrative group. This structure may lead to more predictable outcomes, as the shared environment of the art unit often results in a unified perspective on technical issues and prior art interpretation.
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 (33%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (67%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ADHLAKHA, RITA P | 1 | 75.6% | +17.2% |
| MINSKEY, JACOB T | 1 | 69.3% | +33.1% |
| RUSSELL, STEPHEN MATTHEW | 1 | 63.6% | +34.4% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18718842 | BASE FABRIC FOR PAPERMAKING FELT AND PAPERMAKING FELT MADE BY JOINTING SAME | ADHLAKHA, RITA P | — |
| 18938477 | PAPERMAKING FELT BASE MEMBER AND PAPERMAKING FELT | MINSKEY, JACOB 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 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18627471 | BASE FABRIC FOR PAPERMAKING FELT, PAPERMAKING FELT, AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING PAPERMAKING FELT | RUSSELL, STEPHEN MATTHEW | 7d |
| 18718842 | BASE FABRIC FOR PAPERMAKING FELT AND PAPERMAKING FELT MADE BY JOINTING SAME | ADHLAKHA, RITA P | — |
| 18938477 | PAPERMAKING FELT BASE MEMBER AND PAPERMAKING FELT | MINSKEY, JACOB T | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1748 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18718842 | BASE FABRIC FOR PAPERMAKING FELT AND PAPERMAKING FELT MADE BY JOINTING SAME | ADHLAKHA, RITA P | — | §102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 03, 2025 |
| 18938477 | PAPERMAKING FELT BASE MEMBER AND PAPERMAKING FELT | MINSKEY, JACOB T | — | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 06, 2024 |
| 18627471 | BASE FABRIC FOR PAPERMAKING FELT, PAPERMAKING FELT, AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING PAPERMAKING FELT | RUSSELL, STEPHEN MATTHEW | 1748 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 7d | Pending | Apr 05, 2024 |
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