Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
5 pending office actions • 2 art units • 4 examiners • 0 of 5 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 10 patents granted in the last 365 days
NIPPON LIGHT METAL Company, Ltd. has 6 pending office actions in the Chemistry & Materials technology area. These 6 actions are distributed across 3 distinct art units and 5 distinct examiners. Devang R Patel is the busiest examiner, managing 2 pending office actions. The 2 pending actions with the busiest examiner are part of the 6 pending office actions. The 5 distinct examiners for 6 pending office actions suggest that most matters are handled by different individuals. This requires managing 5 different examiner perspectives across 3 distinct art units. The 3 distinct art units indicate technical variety within the portfolio.
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 |
|---|---|
| §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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| PATEL, DEVANG R | 2 | 65.6% | +39.2% |
| ABOAGYE, MICHAEL | 1 | 75.4% | +37.8% |
| TAVAKOLDAVANI, KAMRAN | 1 | 81.8% | +7.1% |
| GREGORIO, GUINEVER S | 1 | 73.0% | +18.5% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18695803 | COOLING DEVICE FOR POWER DEVICE | TAVAKOLDAVANI, KAMRAN | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18996814 | METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING JOINED BODY | PATEL, DEVANG R | 23d overdue |
| 18842376 | ALUMINUM ALLOY FOR CASTING AND ALUMINUM ALLOY CASTING | ABOAGYE, MICHAEL | — |
| 18706708 | METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING JOINED BODY | PATEL, DEVANG R | — |
| 18228784 | METHOD FOR PRODUCING SODIUM BOROHYDRIDE | GREGORIO, GUINEVER S | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1735 | 2 |
| 1732 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18996814 | METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING JOINED BODY | PATEL, DEVANG R | 1735 | §103 | Final Rejection | 23d overdue | Pending | Jan 17, 2025 |
| 18842376 | ALUMINUM ALLOY FOR CASTING AND ALUMINUM ALLOY CASTING | ABOAGYE, MICHAEL | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 28, 2024 |
| 18706708 | METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING JOINED BODY | PATEL, DEVANG R | 1735 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | May 01, 2024 |
| 18695803 | COOLING DEVICE FOR POWER DEVICE | TAVAKOLDAVANI, KAMRAN | — | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 26, 2024 |
| 18228784 | METHOD FOR PRODUCING SODIUM BOROHYDRIDE | GREGORIO, GUINEVER S | 1732 | §103DP | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Aug 01, 2023 |
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