Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Japan Polyethylene Corporation currently manages 3 pending office actions in the Chemistry & Materials technology area. These actions are distributed across 3 distinct examiners and the distinct art units. This structure indicates that each active filing is being reviewed by a different official in a different specialized group. Kruer, Kevin R is the busiest examiner for the portfolio, holding 1 pending office action.
Since the distinct examiners have a pending office action each, the portfolio's active matters are spread across the personnel. This diversity in examiners and art units suggests that the company's filings cover distinct chemical or material sub-specialties. The company must address the feedback from 3 distinct art units to move the pending office actions forward. Each of the examiners will apply the specific standards of their respective art unit within the Chemistry & Materials technology area. The 1 pending office action under Kruer, Kevin R represents one part of this distributed workload.
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 | 2 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| XU, JIANGTIAN | 1 | 65.3% | +35.8% |
| KOLB, KATARZYNA I | 1 | 45.2% | +15.9% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17913633 | PIPELINE MEMBER FOR ULTRAPURE WATER AND POLYETHYLENE-BASED RESIN COMPOSITION FOR PIPELINE MEMBER FOR ULTRAPURE WATER | XU, JIANGTIAN | 11d overdue |
| 17622918 | RESIN FOR FILM-SHAPED MOLDED BODY AND MOLDED PRODUCT COMPRISING SAME | KOLB, KATARZYNA I | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1762 | 1 |
| 1767 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17913633 | PIPELINE MEMBER FOR ULTRAPURE WATER AND POLYETHYLENE-BASED RESIN COMPOSITION FOR PIPELINE MEMBER FOR ULTRAPURE WATER | XU, JIANGTIAN | 1762 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 11d overdue | Pending | Sep 22, 2022 |
| 17622918 | RESIN FOR FILM-SHAPED MOLDED BODY AND MOLDED PRODUCT COMPRISING SAME | KOLB, KATARZYNA I | 1767 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 27, 2021 |
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