Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals • Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 2 patents granted in the last 365 days
Refine Holdings Co. Ltd. has a company patent portfolio in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. The company currently has 2 pending office actions. These actions are assigned to 2 distinct examiners, with each examiner handling one matter.
The portfolio spans 2 distinct art units. This indicates that the company's transportation and mechanical innovations are being reviewed by two different specialized groups. KUMAR, KALYANAVENKA K is the busiest examiner, with 1 busiest examiner pending office action.
Practitioners should note that with 2 pending office actions across 2 examiners and 2 art units, the prosecution is fully distributed. Each matter is being handled by a different individual in a different technical group. This requires a tailored strategy for each of the 2 pending actions in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems field. The separation into 2 art units suggests that the company's inventions may involve distinct mechanical or logistical components.
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%) |
| §112 only | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| KUMAR, KALYANAVENKA K | 1 | 72.9% | +18.3% |
| SPAINE, ROBERT FRANKLIN | 1 | 75.0% | +0.0% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18772788 | METHOD FOR PRODUCING CARBON MATERIAL DISPERSION, CARBON MATERIAL DISPERSION, AND APPARATUS THEREFOR | KUMAR, KALYANAVENKA K | 15d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3653 | 1 |
| 1655 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18772788 | METHOD FOR PRODUCING CARBON MATERIAL DISPERSION, CARBON MATERIAL DISPERSION, AND APPARATUS THEREFOR | KUMAR, KALYANAVENKA K | 3653 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 15d overdue | Pending | Jul 15, 2024 |
| 18702472 | ENDOPLASMIC RETICULUM STRESS INHIBITOR, NEURODEGENERATIVE DISEASE PREVENTING/IMPROVING AGENT, AGENT FOR PREVENTION/PROGRESSION PREVENTION/IMPROVEMENT OF DEMENTIA, AND FOOD PRODUCT | SPAINE, ROBERT FRANKLIN | 1655 | §112Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 18, 2024 |
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