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
Mitsukawa Kabushiki Kaisha currently manages 1 pending office action within the Chemistry & Materials technology area. This 1 action is distributed across 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit, indicating a concentrated prosecution footprint for the portfolio. The lack of variety in examining personnel suggests that the company's current interactions with the patent office are centralized within a specific niche of the chemical sector.
The busiest examiner for this portfolio is CHOI, PETER Y, who is responsible for 1 pending office action. Because the total number of pending office actions is 1, this examiner handles the company's active prosecution workload. This 1 to 1 ratio between the busiest examiner's load and the total pending actions reflects a portfolio that is currently focused on a singular point of examination rather than a broad array of simultaneous filings.
For practitioners, the presence of 1 distinct art unit means that prosecution strategies can be tailored specifically to the tendencies of that unit. With only 1 pending office action to manage, the administrative burden is minimal, allowing for a focused response to the issues raised by CHOI, PETER Y. This streamlined profile provides a clear path for the applicant to address the outstanding requirements in the Chemistry & Materials space.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| CHOI, PETER Y | 1 | 20.6% | +33.0% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18701013 | LAMINATE CLOTH AND SINGLE CIRCULAR KNITTED FABRIC | CHOI, PETER Y | 100d 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 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18701013 | LAMINATE CLOTH AND SINGLE CIRCULAR KNITTED FABRIC | CHOI, PETER Y | 100d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1786 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18701013 | LAMINATE CLOTH AND SINGLE CIRCULAR KNITTED FABRIC | CHOI, PETER Y | 1786 | §102§103§112 | Final Rejection | 100d overdue | Pending | Apr 12, 2024 |
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