Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
2 pending office actions • 1 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Sakata Inx Corp. currently has 2 pending office actions in the Chemistry & Materials technology area. These actions are being handled by 2 distinct examiners, which means the company is receiving feedback from different individuals. This variety in examiners can lead to different interpretations of the prior art even within the same technology area. Each examiner may focus on different aspects of the chemical compositions.
Both pending office actions are concentrated within 1 distinct art unit, providing some administrative consistency despite the different examiners. AHMED, SHEEBA is the busiest examiner with 1 pending office action. Since there are distinct examiners for the pending actions, each examiner is responsible for a portion of the current pending workload. The focus on a single art unit suggests that the underlying technology for both cases is closely related.
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%) |
| §102 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| AHMED, SHEEBA | 1 | 80.7% | +14.4% |
| KRUER, KEVIN R | 1 | 26.8% | +29.4% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18569112 | METHOD FOR PRODUCING GAS BARRIER PAPER PACKAGING MATERIAL AND GAS BARRIER PAPER PACKAGING MATERIAL | AHMED, SHEEBA | 30d overdue |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17269193 | WATER-BASED INKJET INK COMPOSITION FOR LAMINATING, PRINTED MATTER USING SAME, LAMINATED PRODUCT, AND LAMINATING METHOD | KRUER, KEVIN R | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18569112 | METHOD FOR PRODUCING GAS BARRIER PAPER PACKAGING MATERIAL AND GAS BARRIER PAPER PACKAGING MATERIAL | AHMED, SHEEBA | 30d overdue |
| 17269193 | WATER-BASED INKJET INK COMPOSITION FOR LAMINATING, PRINTED MATTER USING SAME, LAMINATED PRODUCT, AND LAMINATING METHOD | KRUER, KEVIN R | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1787 | 2 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18569112 | METHOD FOR PRODUCING GAS BARRIER PAPER PACKAGING MATERIAL AND GAS BARRIER PAPER PACKAGING MATERIAL | AHMED, SHEEBA | 1787 | §102 | Non-Final OA | 30d overdue | Pending | Dec 11, 2023 |
| 17269193 | WATER-BASED INKJET INK COMPOSITION FOR LAMINATING, PRINTED MATTER USING SAME, LAMINATED PRODUCT, AND LAMINATING METHOD | KRUER, KEVIN R | 1787 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 17, 2021 |
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