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 • 2 patents granted in the last 365 days
Nippon Paint Surf Chemicals Co., Ltd. has 1 pending office action in the Chemistry & Materials sector. Prosecution is concentrated under 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit. This indicates a singular point of contact for the company's current patent applications, reflecting a streamlined approach to its intellectual property management. The lack of diversity in art units suggests the technology remains within a specific chemical niche rather than spanning multiple technical disciplines. Practitioners must navigate this single examination channel to advance the company's current filings.
XU, JIANGTIAN is identified as the busiest examiner with 1 busiest examiner pending action. Because this examiner handles the only active case, the prosecution strategy is currently dependent on a single examiner's review. The outcome of this 1 pending action will define the company's current progress in the Chemistry & Materials sector. For the practitioner, this means that understanding the specific requirements of this 1 art unit is essential for advancing the portfolio. The company's immediate success hinges on navigating the feedback from this individual examiner within the designated technology area.
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 | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| XU, JIANGTIAN | 1 | 65.3% | +35.8% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17617412 | HYDROPHILIZATION TREATMENT AGENT AND METHOD FOR FORMING HYDROPHILIC COATING FILM | XU, JIANGTIAN | 39d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1762 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17617412 | HYDROPHILIZATION TREATMENT AGENT AND METHOD FOR FORMING HYDROPHILIC COATING FILM | XU, JIANGTIAN | 1762 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 39d | Pending | Dec 08, 2021 |
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