Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Chemistry & Materials • Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics
5 pending office actions • 3 art units • 5 examiners • 0 of 5 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 9 patents granted in the last 365 days
Leadway (Hk) Limited currently maintains 5 pending office actions in the Chemistry & Materials technology area. These actions are assigned to a matching number of distinct examiners, showing that each pending matter is handled by a different individual at the patent office. The prosecution efforts are spread across 3 distinct art units, which indicates a range of technical sub-specialties within the chemistry field for this portfolio.
BLUMEL, BENJAMIN P is the busiest examiner for Leadway (Hk) Limited, with 1 pending office action currently under review. Since there are 5 distinct examiners for the matters, the workload is evenly distributed across the examining corps. The involvement of 3 distinct art units suggests that the company's patent applications are being scrutinized by multiple specialized groups rather than a single department.
For patent practitioners, the distribution across 3 distinct art units means that prosecution strategies may need to be tailored to the specific requirements of different units. The presence of multiple examiners ensures that no single examiner has a disproportionate impact on the portfolio's overall progress. These 5 pending office actions represent the total active administrative burden for the company in this sector.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 2 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 | 2 (40%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 3 (60%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| BLUMEL, BENJAMIN P | 1 | 70.8% | +30.5% |
| WILLIAMS, JAMEL E | 1 | 88.8% | +9.4% |
| JARRETT, LORE RAMILLANO | 1 | 68.5% | +25.1% |
| BRAZIN, JACQUELINE | 1 | 66.0% | +52.7% |
| KASS, BENJAMIN JOSEPH | 1 | 32.6% | +58.9% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18036054 | DETECTION PLATE HAVING IDENTIFICATION INFORMATION AND ANALYZER FOR READING IDENTIFICATION INFORMATION AND IDENTIFICATION METHOD THEREFOR | WILLIAMS, JAMEL E | — |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18036123 | TEST DEVICE AND TEST PAPER | JARRETT, LORE RAMILLANO | 97d overdue |
| 17617284 | MICROFLUIDIC CHIP AND MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREFOR | KASS, BENJAMIN JOSEPH | 73d overdue |
| 18888122 | BIOLOGICAL SAMPLE EXTRACTION BUFFER, AND APPLICATION AND METHOD THEREOF | BLUMEL, BENJAMIN P | — |
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 4 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18036123 | TEST DEVICE AND TEST PAPER | JARRETT, LORE RAMILLANO | 97d overdue |
| 17617284 | MICROFLUIDIC CHIP AND MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREFOR | KASS, BENJAMIN JOSEPH | 73d overdue |
| 18888122 | BIOLOGICAL SAMPLE EXTRACTION BUFFER, AND APPLICATION AND METHOD THEREOF | BLUMEL, BENJAMIN P | — |
| 18003869 | INTERNAL FIXING DEVICE FOR APPARATUS IN TRANSPORT MODE, APPARATUS COMPRISING INTERNAL FIXING DEVICE, AND METHOD FOR REDUCING DAMAGE TO APPARATUS DURING TRANSPORT | BRAZIN, JACQUELINE | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1798 | 2 |
| 2855 | 1 |
| 1797 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18888122 | BIOLOGICAL SAMPLE EXTRACTION BUFFER, AND APPLICATION AND METHOD THEREOF | BLUMEL, BENJAMIN P | — | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 17, 2024 |
| 18036054 | DETECTION PLATE HAVING IDENTIFICATION INFORMATION AND ANALYZER FOR READING IDENTIFICATION INFORMATION AND IDENTIFICATION METHOD THEREFOR | WILLIAMS, JAMEL E | 2855 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 10, 2023 |
| 18036123 | TEST DEVICE AND TEST PAPER | JARRETT, LORE RAMILLANO | 1797 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 97d overdue | Pending | May 09, 2023 |
| 18003869 | INTERNAL FIXING DEVICE FOR APPARATUS IN TRANSPORT MODE, APPARATUS COMPRISING INTERNAL FIXING DEVICE, AND METHOD FOR REDUCING DAMAGE TO APPARATUS DURING TRANSPORT | BRAZIN, JACQUELINE | 1798 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 29, 2022 |
| 17617284 | MICROFLUIDIC CHIP AND MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREFOR | KASS, BENJAMIN JOSEPH | 1798 | §102§103§112 | Final Rejection | 73d overdue | Pending | Dec 07, 2021 |
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