Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
5 pending office actions • 1 art units • 5 examiners • 0 of 5 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 4 patents granted in the last 365 days
Kyodo Yushi Co. Ltd. has 5 pending office actions in the Chemistry & Materials technology area. These 5 actions are handled by 5 distinct examiners, ensuring that each matter receives an independent review. Despite the variety of examiners, all prosecution is concentrated within 1 distinct art unit. MCAVOY, ELLEN M is the busiest examiner, currently responsible for 1 busiest examiner pending action. This means that each of the 5 pending office actions is assigned to a different examiner within that single unit.
The 1 distinct art unit serves as the primary administrative hub for the company's current chemical patents. Practitioners will need to manage 5 different examiner relationships while working within the same 1 distinct art unit. This concentration in 1 distinct art unit suggests a very specific technical niche within the chemistry sector. While 5 distinct examiners are involved, they likely share a common supervisory environment. The 1 busiest examiner pending action held by MCAVOY, ELLEN M shows that the workload is evenly split among the 5 distinct examiners. This structure allows the company to benefit from multiple perspectives while only having to navigate the policies of one art unit.
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 | 3 (60%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 1 (20%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| MCAVOY, ELLEN M | 1 | 72.8% | +8.7% |
| VASISTH, VISHAL V | 1 | 72.3% | +33.4% |
| OLADAPO, TAIWO | 1 | 52.9% | +11.8% |
| HINES, LATOSHA D | 1 | 51.2% | +21.7% |
| TOOMER, CEPHIA D | 1 | 74.4% | +2.5% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18849131 | GREASE COMPOSITION | HINES, LATOSHA D | 31d overdue |
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 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18849083 | GREASE COMPOSITION | OLADAPO, TAIWO | 38d overdue |
| 18849131 | GREASE COMPOSITION | HINES, LATOSHA D | 31d overdue |
| 18855045 | GREASE COMPOSITION | VASISTH, VISHAL V | 56d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1771 | 5 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18995665 | GREASE COMPOSITION AND RACK-AND-PINION-TYPE STEERING DEVICE FILLED WITH SAID GREASE COMPOSITION | MCAVOY, ELLEN M | 1771 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jan 16, 2025 |
| 18855045 | GREASE COMPOSITION | VASISTH, VISHAL V | 1771 | §103 | Final Rejection | 56d | Pending | Oct 08, 2024 |
| 18849083 | GREASE COMPOSITION | OLADAPO, TAIWO | 1771 | §103DP | Final Rejection | 38d overdue | Pending | Sep 20, 2024 |
| 18849131 | GREASE COMPOSITION | HINES, LATOSHA D | 1771 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 31d overdue | Pending | Sep 20, 2024 |
| 17800614 | RESIN LUBRICATION GREASE COMPOSITION | TOOMER, CEPHIA D | 1771 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 73d overdue | Pending | Aug 18, 2022 |
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