Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Chemistry & Materials • Communications • Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
6 pending office actions • 5 art units • 6 examiners • 0 of 6 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 6 patents granted in the last 365 days
Institute Of Science Tokyo currently has 7 pending office actions in the Chemistry & Materials technology area. These 7 actions are distributed among 7 distinct examiners and 6 distinct art units. JONATHAN K NG is the busiest examiner for the portfolio, managing 1 pending office action.
The fact that 7 distinct examiners are assigned to 7 pending office actions means there is no examiner overlap in the current portfolio. This requires the prosecution team to engage with 7 different individual styles across 6 distinct art units. The high number of art units relative to the total actions suggests a broad technical scope within the Chemistry & Materials sector. Practitioners must navigate these 6 distinct art units without the benefit of concentrated examiner relationships.
With JONATHAN K NG handling only 1 pending office action, the portfolio is decentralized at the examiner level. Managing 7 pending office actions under these conditions requires an individualized approach for each application. The 6 distinct art units represent a significant breadth of technical review, further emphasizing the need for specialized expertise across the Chemistry & Materials field. This distribution ensures that no single examiner has a disproportionate impact on the overall portfolio.
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 |
|---|---|
| §101 + other | 2 (33%) |
| §103 only | 2 (33%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (33%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| NG, JONATHAN K | 1 | 35.6% | +14.0% |
| MCCARTHY, GINA | 1 | 50.3% | +55.7% |
| KLIMOWICZ, WILLIAM JOSEPH | 1 | 80.9% | +18.2% |
| GALERA, PATRICK PAUL CONTRER | 1 | 75.0% | +27.3% |
| KERNS, KEVIN P | 1 | 79.0% | +21.2% |
| NGUYEN, KEVIN NMN | 1 | 82.5% | +8.7% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19067574 | Improved YPtBi Composition in Spin Orbit Torque Devices | KLIMOWICZ, WILLIAM JOSEPH | 34d |
| 17946025 | COMPOSITE BODY, LITHIUM ION CONDUCTOR, ALL-SOLID STATE LITHIUM ION SECONDARY BATTERY, ELECTRODE SHEET FOR ALL-SOLID STATE LITHIUM ION SECONDARY BATTERY, AND LITHIUM TETRABORATE | NGUYEN, KEVIN NMN | — |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 4 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19244101 | MEDICAL REPORTER, MEDICAL REPORTING SYSTEM, AND MEDICAL REPORTING METHOD | NG, JONATHAN K | — |
| 19117051 | TONGUE SUCTION RESTRAINER, TONGUE SUCTION RESTRAINER MANUFACTURING KIT, AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING TONGUE SUCTION RESTRAINER | MCCARTHY, GINA | — |
| 18880682 | SIMULATION SYSTEM AND METHOD OF SIMULATION | GALERA, PATRICK PAUL CONTRER | — |
| 18325970 | LITHIUM-BASED SOLID ELECTROLYTE, INORGANIC SOLID ELECTROLYTE, PRODUCTION METHOD FOR LITHIUM-BASED SOLID ELECTROLYTE, MODIFIED POSITIVE ELECTRODE ACTIVE MATERIAL, MODIFIED NEGATIVE ELECTRODE ACTIVE MATERIAL, ALL-SOLID STATE SECONDARY BATTERY, ELECTRODE SHEET FOR ALL-SOLID STATE SECONDARY BATTERY, SOLID ELECTROLYTE SHEET, AND ELECTRODE FOR ALL-SOLID STATE SECONDARY BATTERY | KERNS, KEVIN P | — |
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 5 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19067574 | Improved YPtBi Composition in Spin Orbit Torque Devices | KLIMOWICZ, WILLIAM JOSEPH | 34d |
| 19244101 | MEDICAL REPORTER, MEDICAL REPORTING SYSTEM, AND MEDICAL REPORTING METHOD | NG, JONATHAN K | — |
| 19117051 | TONGUE SUCTION RESTRAINER, TONGUE SUCTION RESTRAINER MANUFACTURING KIT, AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING TONGUE SUCTION RESTRAINER | MCCARTHY, GINA | — |
| 18880682 | SIMULATION SYSTEM AND METHOD OF SIMULATION | GALERA, PATRICK PAUL CONTRER | — |
| 18325970 | LITHIUM-BASED SOLID ELECTROLYTE, INORGANIC SOLID ELECTROLYTE, PRODUCTION METHOD FOR LITHIUM-BASED SOLID ELECTROLYTE, MODIFIED POSITIVE ELECTRODE ACTIVE MATERIAL, MODIFIED NEGATIVE ELECTRODE ACTIVE MATERIAL, ALL-SOLID STATE SECONDARY BATTERY, ELECTRODE SHEET FOR ALL-SOLID STATE SECONDARY BATTERY, SOLID ELECTROLYTE SHEET, AND ELECTRODE FOR ALL-SOLID STATE SECONDARY BATTERY | KERNS, KEVIN P | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3619 | 1 |
| 3786 | 1 |
| 2688 | 1 |
| 1735 | 1 |
| 1752 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19244101 | MEDICAL REPORTER, MEDICAL REPORTING SYSTEM, AND MEDICAL REPORTING METHOD | NG, JONATHAN K | 3619 | §101§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 20, 2025 |
| 19117051 | TONGUE SUCTION RESTRAINER, TONGUE SUCTION RESTRAINER MANUFACTURING KIT, AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING TONGUE SUCTION RESTRAINER | MCCARTHY, GINA | 3786 | §101§102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 30, 2025 |
| 19067574 | Improved YPtBi Composition in Spin Orbit Torque Devices | KLIMOWICZ, WILLIAM JOSEPH | 2688 | §103 | Final Rejection | 34d | Pending | Feb 28, 2025 |
| 18880682 | SIMULATION SYSTEM AND METHOD OF SIMULATION | GALERA, PATRICK PAUL CONTRER | — | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 02, 2025 |
| 18325970 | LITHIUM-BASED SOLID ELECTROLYTE, INORGANIC SOLID ELECTROLYTE, PRODUCTION METHOD FOR LITHIUM-BASED SOLID ELECTROLYTE, MODIFIED POSITIVE ELECTRODE ACTIVE MATERIAL, MODIFIED NEGATIVE ELECTRODE ACTIVE MATERIAL, ALL-SOLID STATE SECONDARY BATTERY, ELECTRODE SHEET FOR ALL-SOLID STATE SECONDARY BATTERY, SOLID ELECTROLYTE SHEET, AND ELECTRODE FOR ALL-SOLID STATE SECONDARY BATTERY | KERNS, KEVIN P | 1735 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | May 30, 2023 |
| 17946025 | COMPOSITE BODY, LITHIUM ION CONDUCTOR, ALL-SOLID STATE LITHIUM ION SECONDARY BATTERY, ELECTRODE SHEET FOR ALL-SOLID STATE LITHIUM ION SECONDARY BATTERY, AND LITHIUM TETRABORATE | NGUYEN, KEVIN NMN | 1752 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 15, 2022 |
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