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
Reiko Co. Ltd. currently manages 1 pending office action within the Chemistry & Materials technology area. This single action is being handled by 1 distinct examiner, LE, HOA T. The concentration of work is absolute, as 1 distinct art unit contains the entirety of the portfolio's active prosecution. LE, HOA T is identified as the busiest examiner for the company, also accounting for 1 busiest examiner pending action.
This indicates a highly focused prosecution stage where all current activity is channeled through a single point of contact at the patent office. Practitioners can expect a streamlined communication path given the lack of diversity in assigned personnel. The alignment of the busiest examiner with the only pending action suggests that the company's immediate patent strategy is entirely dependent on the outcomes from this specific individual. Furthermore, the presence of 1 distinct art unit implies that the technical subject matter is tightly defined within the Chemistry & Materials sector. This singular art unit assignment simplifies the consistency of legal arguments across the portfolio.
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 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| LE, HOA T | 1 | 72.7% | +12.2% |
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.
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1788 | 1 |
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