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 • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Osaka Organic Chemical Industry Ltd. has 2 pending office actions within the Chemistry & Materials technology area. These pending matters are assigned to 1 distinct art unit, indicating a concentrated area of technical review for the company. Prosecution involves 2 distinct examiners, meaning each pending action is under the supervision of a different official. This structure shows that even within a single art unit, the company's chemistry and materials applications are being processed by different personnel.
CHEN, VIVIAN is identified as the busiest examiner, currently overseeing 1 pending office action. This workload represents a portion of the 2 total pending office actions for the portfolio. The use of 2 distinct examiners within a single distinct art unit suggests that the company's technical disclosures are being evaluated from different perspectives within the same specialized group. Practitioners should be aware that consistency in prosecution may depend on the internal practices of this 1 art unit.
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 | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| CHEN, VIVIAN | 1 | 56.7% | +29.1% |
| LISTVOYB, GREGORY | 1 | 66.9% | +29.6% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18701293 | RESIN COMPOSITION, WATER-SWELLABLE FILM, ARTICLE COVERED WITH WATER-SWELLABLE FILM, AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING WATER-SWELLABLE FILM | CHEN, VIVIAN | — |
| 18574107 | COPOLYMER, COATING AGENT, AND ARTICLE | LISTVOYB, GREGORY | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1787 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18701293 | RESIN COMPOSITION, WATER-SWELLABLE FILM, ARTICLE COVERED WITH WATER-SWELLABLE FILM, AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING WATER-SWELLABLE FILM | CHEN, VIVIAN | 1787 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 15, 2024 |
| 18574107 | COPOLYMER, COATING AGENT, AND ARTICLE | LISTVOYB, GREGORY | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 26, 2023 |
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