Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Chemistry & Materials • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
27 pending office actions • 16 art units • 27 examiners • 0 of 27 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 56 patents granted in the last 365 days
IHI Corporation currently manages 27 pending office actions within the Chemistry & Materials technology area. These 27 pending office actions are assigned to 27 distinct examiners, meaning no examiner is currently handling more than one case. These examiners are located across 16 distinct art units. BROCKMAN, ELDON T is the busiest examiner with 1 busiest examiner pending action. The 16 distinct art units show that the company's chemistry-related filings are diverse.
With 27 distinct examiners for the 27 pending office actions, the workload is perfectly distributed. This means that every pending office action is being reviewed by a different individual, requiring the company to navigate 27 different examiner styles. The 1 busiest examiner pending action assigned to BROCKMAN, ELDON T represents a small portion of the 27 pending office actions. Practitioners should focus on the specific preferences of each examiner to ensure successful outcomes.
The 16 distinct art units suggest that the portfolio touches on several specialized groups within the USPTO. Managing 27 pending office actions across these units requires an understanding of the specific technical standards applied by each group. Because the 27 distinct examiners are spread across 16 distinct art units, there is significant variety in the technical scrutiny applied to the applications. This structure requires a strategy that accounts for both individual examiner preferences and art unit trends.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 8 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. 8 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 |
|---|---|
| §101 + other | 1 (4%) |
| §103 only | 11 (41%) |
| §102 only | 1 (4%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 1 (4%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 13 (48%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| BROCKMAN, ELDON T | 1 | 85.0% | +5.7% |
| MALATEK, KATHERYN A | 1 | 86.7% | +43.0% |
| FLORES, JUAN G | 1 | 79.5% | +14.5% |
| SYROWIK, MATHEW RICHARD | 1 | 9.0% | +11.7% |
| MCANDREW, CHRISTOPHER P | 1 | 85.9% | +13.9% |
| DAVIS, JASON GREGORY | 1 | 74.4% | +17.8% |
| JOHNSON, ERIC | 1 | 62.3% | +22.7% |
| MASINICK, JONATHAN PETER | 1 | 68.5% | +33.5% |
| HAGHIGHIAN, BEHNOUSH | 1 | 78.7% | +12.8% |
| MCNALLY, DANIEL | 1 | 68.0% | +13.6% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19087759 | EDDY-CURRENT FLAW DETECTION DEVICE AND EDDY-CURRENT FLAW DETECTION METHOD | MCANDREW, CHRISTOPHER P | — |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 8 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18348474 | WORKPIECE CUTTING DEVICE AND WORKPIECE CUTTING METHOD | RILEY, JONATHAN G | 4d overdue |
| 19268009 | ROTARY DEVICE | FLORES, JUAN G | 8d |
| 18855444 | METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING LAYERED PRODUCT AND DEVICE FOR MANUFACTURING LAYERED PRODUCT | MCNALLY, DANIEL | 20d |
| 18049387 | CHARGING SYSTEM AND CHARGING STATION INCLUDING REDUCING A FUTURE ELECTRIC POWER CHARGE AMOUNT FOR SOME VEHICLES TO BE ALLOCATED TO A VEHICLE REQUESTING EARLY START OF CHARGING | HERNANDEZ, MANUEL J | 40d |
| 19403426 | ROTARY DEVICE | BROCKMAN, ELDON T | — |
| 19280853 | COMBUSTION SYSTEM USING AMMONIA AS FUEL | MALATEK, KATHERYN A | — |
| 19185268 | ABNORMALITY DETERMINATION DEVICE | SYROWIK, MATHEW RICHARD | — |
| 19010270 | ROTATION DEVICE | MASINICK, JONATHAN PETER | — |
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 8 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19268009 | ROTARY DEVICE | FLORES, JUAN G | 8d |
| 18855444 | METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING LAYERED PRODUCT AND DEVICE FOR MANUFACTURING LAYERED PRODUCT | MCNALLY, DANIEL | 20d |
| 19071859 | TURBINE | DAVIS, JASON GREGORY | 23d |
| 19280853 | COMBUSTION SYSTEM USING AMMONIA AS FUEL | MALATEK, KATHERYN A | — |
| 19185268 | ABNORMALITY DETERMINATION DEVICE | SYROWIK, MATHEW RICHARD | — |
| 19087759 | EDDY-CURRENT FLAW DETECTION DEVICE AND EDDY-CURRENT FLAW DETECTION METHOD | MCANDREW, CHRISTOPHER P | — |
| 19064728 | INVERTER INTEGRATED GAS SUPPLY DEVICE WITH SEALING MEMBERS FOR MOTOR-INVERTER CONNECTION | JOHNSON, ERIC | — |
| 19010270 | ROTATION DEVICE | MASINICK, JONATHAN PETER | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3745 | 3 |
| 2859 | 3 |
| 3799 | 1 |
| 3621 | 1 |
| 1746 | 1 |
| 1711 | 1 |
| 3797 | 1 |
| 3666 | 1 |
| 1738 | 1 |
| 1754 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19403426 | ROTARY DEVICE | BROCKMAN, ELDON T | 3799 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 28, 2025 |
| 19280853 | COMBUSTION SYSTEM USING AMMONIA AS FUEL | MALATEK, KATHERYN A | — | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 25, 2025 |
| 19268009 | ROTARY DEVICE | FLORES, JUAN G | 3745 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | 8d | Pending | Jul 14, 2025 |
| 19185268 | ABNORMALITY DETERMINATION DEVICE | SYROWIK, MATHEW RICHARD | 3621 | §101§102§103§112Other | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Apr 22, 2025 |
| 19087759 | EDDY-CURRENT FLAW DETECTION DEVICE AND EDDY-CURRENT FLAW DETECTION METHOD | MCANDREW, CHRISTOPHER P | — | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 24, 2025 |
| 19071859 | TURBINE | DAVIS, JASON GREGORY | 3745 | §103 | Final Rejection | 23d | Pending | Mar 06, 2025 |
| 19064728 | INVERTER INTEGRATED GAS SUPPLY DEVICE WITH SEALING MEMBERS FOR MOTOR-INVERTER CONNECTION | JOHNSON, ERIC | — | §103§112DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 27, 2025 |
| 19010270 | ROTATION DEVICE | MASINICK, JONATHAN PETER | — | §102§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jan 06, 2025 |
| 18917547 | TURBINE AND TURBOCHARGER | HAGHIGHIAN, BEHNOUSH | 3745 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 16, 2024 |
| 18855444 | METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING LAYERED PRODUCT AND DEVICE FOR MANUFACTURING LAYERED PRODUCT | MCNALLY, DANIEL | 1746 | §102§112 | Final Rejection | 20d | Pending | Oct 09, 2024 |
| 18814668 | ELECTRODE FOR DISCHARGE SURFACE TREATMENT AND PRODUCTION METHOD OF THE SAME | LUK, EMMANUEL S | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 26, 2024 |
| 18806825 | METHOD FOR REMOVING DISCHARGE SURFACE TREATMENT COATING | CARRILLO, BIBI SHARIDAN | 1711 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Aug 16, 2024 |
| 18797874 | ULTRASONIC DIAGNOSTIC DEVICE | KLEIN, BROOKE L | 3797 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Aug 08, 2024 |
| 18738206 | REACTION SYSTEM | LEE, CRYSTAL J | — | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 10, 2024 |
| 18643238 | SELF-LOCATION ESTIMATION DEVICE, AUTONOMOUS DRIVING VEHICLE, AND SELF-LOCATION ESTIMATION METHOD | NGUYEN, MISA H | 3666 | §103 | Final Rejection | 16d overdue | Pending | Apr 23, 2024 |
| 18521082 | TiAl ALLOY, TiAl ALLOY POWDER, TiAl ALLOY COMPONENT, AND PRODUCTION METHOD OF THE SAME | MORALES, RICARDO D | 1738 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Nov 28, 2023 |
| 18285277 | ROTATING ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING DEVICE AND CONTROL DEVICE | GROUX, JENNIFER LILA | 1754 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Oct 02, 2023 |
| 18244371 | HYDROGEN PRODUCTION SYSTEM AND HYDROGEN PRODUCTION METHOD | CHUNG, HOSUNG CHARLES | 1759 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 11, 2023 |
| 18239804 | HYDROGEN PRODUCTION APPARATUS | PEREZ, JELITZA M | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 30, 2023 |
| 18348474 | WORKPIECE CUTTING DEVICE AND WORKPIECE CUTTING METHOD | RILEY, JONATHAN G | 3724 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | 4d overdue | Pending | Jul 07, 2023 |
| 18038827 | THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING DEVICE AND THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING METHOD | LEE, EDMUND H | 1744 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | May 25, 2023 |
| 18320338 | COMBUSTION DEVICE AND BOILER | JONES, LOGAN P | 3762 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 19, 2023 |
| 18049387 | CHARGING SYSTEM AND CHARGING STATION INCLUDING REDUCING A FUTURE ELECTRIC POWER CHARGE AMOUNT FOR SOME VEHICLES TO BE ALLOCATED TO A VEHICLE REQUESTING EARLY START OF CHARGING | HERNANDEZ, MANUEL J | 2859 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 40d | Pending | Oct 25, 2022 |
| 17969900 | ELECTROLYSIS SYSTEM AND ELECTROLYSIS METHOD | RIPA, BRYAN D | 1794 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 20, 2022 |
| 17843100 | HYDROGEN PRODUCTION APPARATUS | KUYKENDALL, ALYSSA LEE | 1774 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 70d | Pending | Jun 17, 2022 |
| 17750829 | POWER SUPPLY DEVICE, POWER SUPPLY SYSTEM, AND POWER SUPPLY METHOD FOR ELECTRIC VEHICLE | WEINMANN, RYU-SUNG PETER | 2859 | §103 | Final Rejection | 1d overdue | Pending | May 23, 2022 |
| 17698297 | POWER SUPPLYING FACILITY FOR ELECTRIC VEHICLE AND POWER SUPPLY METHOD FOR ELECTRIC VEHICLE USING POWER SUPPLYING FACILITY | MCFARLAND, DANIEL PATRICK | 2859 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Mar 18, 2022 |
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