Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Polyplastics Co., Ltd. currently manages 2 pending office actions within the Chemistry & Materials technology area. These actions are assigned to 2 distinct examiners across 2 distinct art units, representing a distributed prosecution profile for the current workload. In the Chemistry & Materials sector, such a distribution often occurs when filings touch upon different chemical processes handled by separate groups.
The busiest examiner for this portfolio is HUHN, RICHARD A, who is currently overseeing 1 busiest examiner pending action. With a total of 2 distinct examiners involved, the 2 pending office actions are not concentrated under a single point of authority. This lack of concentration means that the outcome of one action is unlikely to set a direct precedent for the other, as they are being reviewed in 2 distinct art units.
Practitioners should be prepared to address the unique technical requirements of 2 distinct examiners. Since the busiest examiner is only managing 1 busiest examiner pending action, the administrative attention required for each case is individualized. The presence of 2 distinct art units confirms that the company's current Chemistry & Materials interests are being evaluated from multiple regulatory perspectives within the patent office.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 2 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 (50%) |
| No statute on record | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| HUHN, RICHARD A | 1 | 67.0% | +5.6% |
| LEE, RIP A | 1 | 83.5% | -4.2% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18247420 | CYCLIC OLEFIN COPOLYMER PRODUCTION METHOD | LEE, RIP A | 29d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1764 | 1 |
| 1762 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18029786 | TRANSPARENT ARTICLE | HUHN, RICHARD A | 1764 | — | Non-Final OA | 6d | Pending | Mar 31, 2023 |
| 18247420 | CYCLIC OLEFIN COPOLYMER PRODUCTION METHOD | LEE, RIP A | 1762 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | 29d | Pending | Mar 30, 2023 |
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