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 • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Joysonquin Automotive Systems North America LLC currently has 1 pending office action in the Chemistry & Materials technology area. This prosecution involves a single distinct examiner and a sole distinct art unit, showing a singular focus for the company's active patent matters. This concentration implies that the company is currently advancing a specific chemical or material innovation through the patent office. Such a focused approach allows the legal team to concentrate their efforts on a single set of technical arguments and examiner feedback.
The busiest examiner, SCHIFFMAN, BENJAMIN A, is assigned 1 busiest examiner pending office action. As this matches the total pending office action count, this examiner is the sole official currently reviewing the company's pending applications in this technology area. The company's immediate patent strategy is therefore centered on the examination process and specific requirements established by this individual examiner. Success in this area will depend on the ability to effectively address the specific objections raised by this one official.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| SCHIFFMAN, BENJAMIN A | 1 | 65.6% | +27.7% |
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 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18435825 | Method for Forming a Composite Component Having a Surface Projection | SCHIFFMAN, BENJAMIN A | 62d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1742 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18435825 | Method for Forming a Composite Component Having a Surface Projection | SCHIFFMAN, BENJAMIN A | 1742 | §103 | Final Rejection | 62d | Pending | Feb 07, 2024 |
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