Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
2 pending office actions • 1 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Nisshinbo Brake Inc. currently has 2 pending office actions within the Chemistry & Materials technology area. These actions are split between 2 distinct examiners but remain within 1 distinct art unit, suggesting that while the technical focus is narrow, the company is engaging with multiple perspectives within that group. This arrangement allows the company to test different claim strategies within the same technical field while maintaining a consistent art unit environment.
GUINO-O UZZLE, MARITES A is the busiest examiner, accounting for 1 busiest examiner pending action. This distribution shows that the pending workload is evenly divided among the examiners involved, requiring the company to manage two separate examination styles simultaneously. For a practitioner, this means that while the art unit remains constant, the specific feedback from GUINO-O UZZLE, MARITES A may differ from the other examiner on the docket. The presence of 2 pending actions indicates a slightly more active prosecution phase compared to portfolios with only a single pending matter.
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) | 2 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| GUINO-O UZZLE, MARITES A | 1 | 68.9% | +16.6% |
| GREEN, ANTHONY J | 1 | 85.0% | +13.5% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17627711 | FRICTION MATERIAL COMPOSITION, FRICTION MATERIAL, AND DISC BRAKE PAD | GREEN, ANTHONY J | 147d overdue |
| 17907968 | FRICTION MATERIAL | GUINO-O UZZLE, MARITES A | — |
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 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17627711 | FRICTION MATERIAL COMPOSITION, FRICTION MATERIAL, AND DISC BRAKE PAD | GREEN, ANTHONY J | 147d overdue |
| 17907968 | FRICTION MATERIAL | GUINO-O UZZLE, MARITES A | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1731 | 2 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17907968 | FRICTION MATERIAL | GUINO-O UZZLE, MARITES A | 1731 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Aug 30, 2022 |
| 17627711 | FRICTION MATERIAL COMPOSITION, FRICTION MATERIAL, AND DISC BRAKE PAD | GREEN, ANTHONY J | 1731 | §102§112 | Non-Final OA | 147d overdue | Pending | Jan 17, 2022 |
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