Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
1 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Johnson Matthey Process Technologies Inc. holds a company patent portfolio focused on the Chemistry & Materials technology area. The portfolio currently has 1 pending office action, which is the only active matter at this stage of prosecution. This single action is assigned to SEIFU, LESSANEWORK T, who is the busiest examiner for the company. Because SEIFU, LESSANEWORK T is handling 1 busiest examiner pending action, the company's entire current interaction with the patent office is concentrated through this 1 individual.
The prosecution profile is streamlined, featuring 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit. This concentration suggests that the company's current intellectual property efforts are focused on a very specific technical area within Chemistry & Materials. For a patent practitioner, the involvement of only 1 distinct art unit means that the procedural environment is predictable and limited to the practices of a single administrative group. Furthermore, having 1 distinct examiner for the 1 pending office action allows for a direct and focused communication strategy. This lack of complexity in the portfolio's current state simplifies the management of deadlines and examiner interactions, as there are no competing examiner styles or art unit requirements to navigate. The concentration of 1 pending office action under 1 examiner ensures a clear focus for the company's current legal efforts.
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 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| SEIFU, LESSANEWORK T | 1 | 79.2% | +0.9% |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1774 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18527590 | ADDITION SYSTEM FOR ADDING MATERIAL TO INDUSTRIAL PROCESSES | SEIFU, LESSANEWORK T | 1774 | §103 | Final Rejection | 2d overdue | Pending | Dec 04, 2023 |
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