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
Plastal Co. Ltd. is engaged in the Chemistry & Materials technology area with 1 pending office action. This action is assigned to 1 distinct examiner, showing a focused approach to their current patent filings. The involvement of 1 distinct art unit indicates that the company's active matters are being reviewed within a single technical division of the patent office. This concentration suggests a highly specific set of filings within this particular technological domain.
The busiest examiner identified is LEE, EDMUND H, who is responsible for the 1 pending office action. Since there is only 1 busiest examiner pending action, this individual is the sole examiner currently active on the company's behalf. Practitioners should note that the prosecution strategy is simplified by this single point of contact. The entire active workload is consolidated under one examiner in one art unit, making their specific examination history the primary factor in the portfolio's current progress.
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) | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| LEE, EDMUND H | 1 | 69.6% | +17.5% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17801172 | METHOD FOR PREPARING TITANIUM-RESIN ASSEMBLY AND TITANIUM TREATMENT SOLUTION FOR SAME | LEE, EDMUND H | 3d overdue |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17801172 | METHOD FOR PREPARING TITANIUM-RESIN ASSEMBLY AND TITANIUM TREATMENT SOLUTION FOR SAME | LEE, EDMUND H | 3d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1744 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17801172 | METHOD FOR PREPARING TITANIUM-RESIN ASSEMBLY AND TITANIUM TREATMENT SOLUTION FOR SAME | LEE, EDMUND H | 1744 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 3d overdue | Pending | Aug 19, 2022 |
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