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 • 6 patents granted in the last 365 days
Mitsui Chemicals Ict Materia Inc. has 1 pending office action in the Chemistry & Materials technology area. This prosecution activity is confined to 1 distinct art unit and involves 1 distinct examiner. The portfolio's current focus is highly specialized within the chemical arts. Having 1 pending office action indicates a very targeted approach to its current United States patent filings. This concentration in 1 distinct art unit allows the company to focus its legal arguments on the specific standards of that unit.
BLADES, JOHN A is the busiest examiner for the company, overseeing 1 pending office action. This individual manages the company's total active workload, as the busiest examiner pending count is 1. Prosecution strategy is currently centered on the specific requirements of this single examiner. The presence of 1 distinct examiner for the entire pending portfolio simplifies communication but makes the company's progress dependent on a single individual's interpretation of the Chemistry & Materials claims. Practitioners should tailor their responses to the specific examination style of this assigned 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 |
|---|---|
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| BLADES, JOHN A | 1 | 51.1% | +39.0% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18753590 | PROTECTION FILM, METHOD FOR AFFIXING SAME, AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING SEMICONDUCTOR COMPONENT | BLADES, JOHN A | 16d |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18753590 | PROTECTION FILM, METHOD FOR AFFIXING SAME, AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING SEMICONDUCTOR COMPONENT | BLADES, JOHN A | 16d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1746 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18753590 | PROTECTION FILM, METHOD FOR AFFIXING SAME, AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING SEMICONDUCTOR COMPONENT | BLADES, JOHN A | 1746 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | 16d | Pending | Jun 25, 2024 |
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