Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
10 pending office actions • 6 art units • 9 examiners • 0 of 10 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 9 patents granted in the last 365 days
Kureha Corporation currently has 10 pending office actions in the Chemistry & Materials technology area. These 10 actions are spread across 6 distinct art units, which indicates a broad range of chemical and material science applications. The prosecution involves 9 distinct examiners, suggesting that almost every pending case is being reviewed by a different individual.
MOUDOU, EILEEN QI-YUN is the busiest examiner for this portfolio, currently managing 2 pending office actions. This count of 2 is the highest number of actions assigned to any single examiner for the company. With 9 distinct examiners for 10 pending office actions, the workload is highly distributed, with only MOUDOU, EILEEN QI-YUN handling more than one case.
The 6 distinct art units involved in these 10 pending office actions mean that the company's technology is being evaluated by several different specialized groups. Practitioners must manage the expectations of 9 distinct examiners, which may lead to a variety of prosecution experiences. The 2 pending office actions under MOUDOU, EILEEN QI-YUN represent the only point of examiner overlap in the current portfolio.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 4 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. 4 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 |
|---|---|
| §103 only | 7 (70%) |
| §102 only | 1 (10%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (20%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| MOUDOU, EILEEN QI-YUN | 2 | 66.7% | +0.0% |
| GOLDEN, CHINESSA T | 1 | 57.9% | +4.8% |
| PEPITONE, MICHAEL F | 1 | 74.4% | +21.9% |
| MCCULLEY, MEGAN CASSANDRA | 1 | 58.5% | +16.0% |
| IMANI, ELIZABETH MARY COLE | 1 | 33.5% | +25.0% |
| COPENHEAVER, BLAINE R | 1 | 85.5% | +18.4% |
| BUTCHER, ROBERT T | 1 | 71.1% | +17.0% |
| BAIRD, CAMERON MICHAEL | 1 | 100.0% | +0.0% |
| SASTRI, SATYA B | 1 | 62.6% | +29.4% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18546202 | BINDER SOLUTION, SLURRY, SOLID ELECTROLYTE LAYER, ELECTRODE, AND ALL-SOLID BATTERY | BAIRD, CAMERON MICHAEL | 41d |
| 18556601 | PIEZOELECTRIC LAMINATED FILM AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING PIEZOELECTRIC LAMINATED FILM | COPENHEAVER, BLAINE R | — |
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 6 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18566864 | MONOFILAMENT AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING SAME | IMANI, ELIZABETH MARY COLE | 8d |
| 18254490 | VINYLIDENE FLUORIDE POLYMER COMPOSITION AND METHOD OF PRODUCING SAME, RESIN COMPOSITION, ELECTRODE MIXTURE, AND ELECTRODE CONTAINING THESE, AND METHOD OF PRODUCING SAME | SASTRI, SATYA B | 39d |
| 18697184 | VINYLIDENE FLUORIDE POLYMER SOLUTION | PEPITONE, MICHAEL F | — |
| 18578163 | ORGANIC BINDER, COMPOSITION FOR PRODUCING INORGANIC MATERIAL MOLDED ARTICLE, GREEN BODY, DEGREASED BODY, INORGANIC MATERIAL MOLDED ARTICLE, AND METHOD OF PRODUCING INORGANIC MATERIAL MOLDED ARTICLE | MCCULLEY, MEGAN CASSANDRA | — |
| 18556601 | PIEZOELECTRIC LAMINATED FILM AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING PIEZOELECTRIC LAMINATED FILM | COPENHEAVER, BLAINE R | — |
| 18552360 | GLYCOLIC ACID COPOLYMER COMPOSITION AND SOLIDIFICATION/EXTRUSION-MOLDED ARTICLE | BUTCHER, ROBERT T | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1738 | 2 |
| 1788 | 1 |
| 1789 | 1 |
| 1764 | 1 |
| 1728 | 1 |
| 1762 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18868590 | MOLDED BODY, DOWNHOLE TOOL MEMBER, AND DOWNHOLE TOOL | GOLDEN, CHINESSA T | 1788 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 22, 2024 |
| 18697184 | VINYLIDENE FLUORIDE POLYMER SOLUTION | PEPITONE, MICHAEL F | — | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 29, 2024 |
| 18578163 | ORGANIC BINDER, COMPOSITION FOR PRODUCING INORGANIC MATERIAL MOLDED ARTICLE, GREEN BODY, DEGREASED BODY, INORGANIC MATERIAL MOLDED ARTICLE, AND METHOD OF PRODUCING INORGANIC MATERIAL MOLDED ARTICLE | MCCULLEY, MEGAN CASSANDRA | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 10, 2024 |
| 18566864 | MONOFILAMENT AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING SAME | IMANI, ELIZABETH MARY COLE | 1789 | §103 | Final Rejection | 8d | Pending | Dec 04, 2023 |
| 18556601 | PIEZOELECTRIC LAMINATED FILM AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING PIEZOELECTRIC LAMINATED FILM | COPENHEAVER, BLAINE R | — | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 20, 2023 |
| 18552360 | GLYCOLIC ACID COPOLYMER COMPOSITION AND SOLIDIFICATION/EXTRUSION-MOLDED ARTICLE | BUTCHER, ROBERT T | 1764 | §103Other | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Sep 25, 2023 |
| 18551318 | METHOD FOR PRODUCING CARBON QUANTUM DOTS | MOUDOU, EILEEN QI-YUN | 1738 | §103Other | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Sep 19, 2023 |
| 18551332 | METHOD FOR PRODUCING CARBON QUANTUM DOTS | MOUDOU, EILEEN QI-YUN | 1738 | §103 | Final Rejection | 9d | Pending | Sep 19, 2023 |
| 18546202 | BINDER SOLUTION, SLURRY, SOLID ELECTROLYTE LAYER, ELECTRODE, AND ALL-SOLID BATTERY | BAIRD, CAMERON MICHAEL | 1728 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | 41d | Pending | Aug 11, 2023 |
| 18254490 | VINYLIDENE FLUORIDE POLYMER COMPOSITION AND METHOD OF PRODUCING SAME, RESIN COMPOSITION, ELECTRODE MIXTURE, AND ELECTRODE CONTAINING THESE, AND METHOD OF PRODUCING SAME | SASTRI, SATYA B | 1762 | §103 | Final Rejection | 39d | Pending | May 25, 2023 |
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