Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Chemistry & Materials • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 12 patents granted in the last 365 days
Kyoraku Co., Ltd. has 1 pending office action in the Chemistry & Materials technology area. This matter is handled by 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit. HANDVILLE, BRIAN is the busiest examiner for the company, responsible for 1 pending office action. The prosecution is currently limited to this single point of contact, making the company's immediate patenting success dependent on this one examiner's review within the Chemistry & Materials field.
Having 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit for the 1 pending action simplifies the administrative and technical management of the portfolio. HANDVILLE, BRIAN is the sole examiner overseeing the company's pending matters. This concentration allows the applicant to focus their resources on a single set of examiner expectations. The focus on 1 distinct art unit ensures that the prosecution remains within a specific technical group, providing a clear path for the current pending office action.
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 |
|---|---|
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| CASTELLANO, STEPHEN J | 1 | 65.1% | +35.7% |
| HANDVILLE, BRIAN | 1 | 51.4% | +28.9% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18775152 | GRANULAR MATERIAL FOR HEAT-FUSION TYPE THREE-DIMENSIONAL PRINTERS, METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING MOLDED OBJECT, LAYERED STRUCTURE, AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING LAYERED STRUCTURE | HANDVILLE, BRIAN | 13d |
| 18854997 | DUAL CONTAINER, REGENERATED RESIN PRODUCTION METHOD, PREFORM, AND METHOD FOR EXTRACTING INNER BAG OF DUAL CONTAINER | CASTELLANO, STEPHEN J | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18775152 | GRANULAR MATERIAL FOR HEAT-FUSION TYPE THREE-DIMENSIONAL PRINTERS, METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING MOLDED OBJECT, LAYERED STRUCTURE, AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING LAYERED STRUCTURE | HANDVILLE, BRIAN | 13d |
| 18854997 | DUAL CONTAINER, REGENERATED RESIN PRODUCTION METHOD, PREFORM, AND METHOD FOR EXTRACTING INNER BAG OF DUAL CONTAINER | CASTELLANO, STEPHEN J | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3733 | 1 |
| 1783 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18854997 | DUAL CONTAINER, REGENERATED RESIN PRODUCTION METHOD, PREFORM, AND METHOD FOR EXTRACTING INNER BAG OF DUAL CONTAINER | CASTELLANO, STEPHEN J | 3733 | §102§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Oct 08, 2024 |
| 18775152 | GRANULAR MATERIAL FOR HEAT-FUSION TYPE THREE-DIMENSIONAL PRINTERS, METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING MOLDED OBJECT, LAYERED STRUCTURE, AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING LAYERED STRUCTURE | HANDVILLE, BRIAN | 1783 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | 13d | Pending | Jul 17, 2024 |
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