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 • 3 patents granted in the last 365 days
Nissan Chemical America Corporation has 1 pending office action in the Chemistry & Materials technology area. This 1 pending office action is being reviewed by 1 distinct examiner, indicating a focused prosecution effort. The data shows that the work is contained within 1 distinct art unit, which suggests the technology is classified within a specific chemical or materials science discipline.
The examiner LI, AIQUN is designated as the busiest examiner for this portfolio. This examiner is currently responsible for 1 busiest examiner pending office action. Since there is 1 pending office action for the entire company, the prosecution of the current application is entirely within the jurisdiction of this individual examiner and the associated art unit.
Practitioners should focus on the specific examination history of LI, AIQUN, as this 1 distinct examiner holds the authority over the current pending matter. The concentration in 1 distinct art unit means that the company does not currently need to navigate the differing procedural nuances of multiple patent office divisions within the Chemistry & Materials sector.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| LI, AIQUN | 1 | 63.8% | +23.1% |
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.
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1766 | 1 |
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