Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
5 pending office actions • 2 art units • 5 examiners • 0 of 5 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 9 patents granted in the last 365 days
Nippon Paint Automotive Coatings Co. Ltd. currently has 5 pending office actions in the Chemistry & Materials technology area. These actions are handled by 5 distinct examiners across 2 distinct art units. ALICIA JANE WEYDEMEYER is the busiest examiner for the company with 1 pending action. The use of 5 distinct examiners for 5 pending office actions shows that each pending matter is assigned to a unique reviewer.
With 5 pending office actions, the company is actively moving through the patent prosecution process. The concentration of these actions within 2 distinct art units indicates a focused technical area for the company's automotive coating innovations. Having 5 distinct examiners means that the company's legal team must be prepared for different individual examiner styles even within a limited number of art units. This distribution suggests that while the technical scope is narrow, the company's applications are being reviewed by a variety of personnel at the USPTO. The focus on 2 distinct art units provides some technical consistency across 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%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (40%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| MERSHON, JAYNE L | 1 | 66.5% | +18.8% |
| WEYDEMEYER, ALICIA JANE | 1 | 46.2% | +27.7% |
| KHAN, TAHSEEN | 1 | 61.7% | +20.5% |
| VETERE, ROBERT A | 1 | 61.4% | +12.9% |
| NERANGIS, VICKEY M | 1 | 56.6% | +29.0% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19105506 | DECORATIVE LAMINATED FILM FOR SOLAR CELL MODULE | MERSHON, JAYNE L | — |
| 19105347 | LAMINATE FILM AND ARTICLE | WEYDEMEYER, ALICIA JANE | — |
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 5 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18863250 | AUTOMOBILE BODY AND METHOD FOR FABRICATING SAME | VETERE, ROBERT A | 30d |
| 19105506 | DECORATIVE LAMINATED FILM FOR SOLAR CELL MODULE | MERSHON, JAYNE L | — |
| 19105347 | LAMINATE FILM AND ARTICLE | WEYDEMEYER, ALICIA JANE | — |
| 18956437 | MULTILAYER COATING FILM | KHAN, TAHSEEN | — |
| 18579705 | COATING COMPOSITION SET | NERANGIS, VICKEY M | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1721 | 1 |
| 1712 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19105506 | DECORATIVE LAMINATED FILM FOR SOLAR CELL MODULE | MERSHON, JAYNE L | 1721 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 21, 2025 |
| 19105347 | LAMINATE FILM AND ARTICLE | WEYDEMEYER, ALICIA JANE | — | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 21, 2025 |
| 18956437 | MULTILAYER COATING FILM | KHAN, TAHSEEN | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 22, 2024 |
| 18863250 | AUTOMOBILE BODY AND METHOD FOR FABRICATING SAME | VETERE, ROBERT A | 1712 | §103 | Final Rejection | 30d | Pending | Nov 05, 2024 |
| 18579705 | COATING COMPOSITION SET | NERANGIS, VICKEY M | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 16, 2024 |
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