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 • 4 patents granted in the last 365 days
Nomura Micro Science Co., Ltd. has 2 pending office actions within the Chemistry & Materials technology area. These actions are assigned to 2 distinct examiners and are located within 1 distinct art unit. The concentration of multiple actions within a single art unit suggests a specific technical focus for these pending matters.
GEISBERT, WILLIAM ADDISON is the busiest examiner for the company, with 1 busiest examiner pending action. Since there are 2 distinct examiners for 2 pending office actions, the workload is evenly split. This distribution allows each examiner to focus on a single pending action within the Chemistry & Materials field.
The presence of 1 distinct art unit for 2 pending office actions indicates that the company's current filings are being reviewed by the same specialized group. Practitioners should maintain consistent arguments across the 2 distinct examiners to ensure a unified prosecution strategy for 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 | 1 (50%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (50%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| GEISBERT, WILLIAM ADDISON | 1 | 36.0% | +46.4% |
| ROTONDI, CONNOR JON | 1 | 0.0% | +0.0% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18544640 | MEASUREMENT DEVICE, WATER TREATMENT DEVICE, MEASUREMENT METHOD, AND WATER TREATMENT METHOD | ROTONDI, CONNOR JON | 4d overdue |
| 18825042 | METHOD FOR PRODUCING ULTRAPURE WATER, ULTRAPURE WATER PRODUCTION APPARATUS, AND ULTRAPURE WATER PRODUCTION SYSTEM | GEISBERT, WILLIAM ADDISON | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18825042 | METHOD FOR PRODUCING ULTRAPURE WATER, ULTRAPURE WATER PRODUCTION APPARATUS, AND ULTRAPURE WATER PRODUCTION SYSTEM | GEISBERT, WILLIAM ADDISON | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1779 | 2 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18825042 | METHOD FOR PRODUCING ULTRAPURE WATER, ULTRAPURE WATER PRODUCTION APPARATUS, AND ULTRAPURE WATER PRODUCTION SYSTEM | GEISBERT, WILLIAM ADDISON | 1779 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 05, 2024 |
| 18544640 | MEASUREMENT DEVICE, WATER TREATMENT DEVICE, MEASUREMENT METHOD, AND WATER TREATMENT METHOD | ROTONDI, CONNOR JON | 1779 | §103 | Final Rejection | 4d overdue | Pending | Dec 19, 2023 |
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