Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals • Chemistry & Materials
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Sakai Chemical Industry Co. Ltd. currently manages 2 pending office actions in the Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals technology area. These actions are spread across distinct art units, indicating a varied technical review for the pending applications. This structure suggests that the company's intellectual property covers diverse biological or chemical subject matter.
The portfolio involves 2 distinct examiners, with each examiner handling a separate pending matter. BERRIOS, JENNIFER A is the busiest examiner for the portfolio, currently overseeing 1 pending office action. Practitioners should be prepared to address the specific requirements of these different art units, which may have distinct internal guidelines for biotechnology applications.
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) | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| BERRIOS, JENNIFER A | 1 | 37.0% | +49.8% |
| FOSS, DAVID ROGER | 1 | 74.0% | +34.5% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18847545 | SPHERICAL COMPOSITE PARTICLES OF BARIUM SULFATE AND SILICA, AND PRODUCTION METHOD THEREFOR | BERRIOS, JENNIFER A | — |
| 18547836 | ZIRCONIUM ELEMENT-CONTAINING RESIN COMPOSITION | FOSS, DAVID ROGER | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18847545 | SPHERICAL COMPOSITE PARTICLES OF BARIUM SULFATE AND SILICA, AND PRODUCTION METHOD THEREFOR | BERRIOS, JENNIFER A | — |
| 18547836 | ZIRCONIUM ELEMENT-CONTAINING RESIN COMPOSITION | FOSS, DAVID ROGER | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1613 | 1 |
| 1764 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18847545 | SPHERICAL COMPOSITE PARTICLES OF BARIUM SULFATE AND SILICA, AND PRODUCTION METHOD THEREFOR | BERRIOS, JENNIFER A | 1613 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 16, 2024 |
| 18547836 | ZIRCONIUM ELEMENT-CONTAINING RESIN COMPOSITION | FOSS, DAVID ROGER | 1764 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Aug 24, 2023 |
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