Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
4 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 4 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Sanko Gosei Ltd. currently has 4 pending office actions within the Chemistry & Materials technology area. All 4 of these actions are being handled by a single distinct examiner, which is a high level of concentration for this portfolio. This means the company's entire current pending workload is subject to the review of a single individual.
The prosecution is also entirely contained within 1 distinct art unit. With 4 pending office actions all located in the same art unit and assigned to the same examiner, the company has a concentrated point of contact at the patent office. This can simplify communication but also means that the company's success is tied to the specific interpretations of that 1 examiner.
GAITONDE, MEGHA MEHTA is the busiest examiner for the company, managing 4 pending office actions. This examiner's workload accounts for all 4 pending office actions. Practitioners working on these files must focus on the specific preferences and past decisions of the examiner to effectively navigate the prosecution of the entire active portfolio.
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 |
|---|---|
| Double-patenting + other | 2 (50%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| GAITONDE, MEGHA MEHTA | 4 | 40.5% | +35.6% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17588951 | MANUFACTURING METHOD OF SOUNDPROOF CUSHIONING MATERIAL AND SOUNDPROOF CUSHIONING MATERIAL | GAITONDE, MEGHA MEHTA | 15d |
| 19029321 | MANUFACTURING METHOD OF SOUNDPROOF CUSHIONING MATERIAL AND SOUNDPROOF CUSHIONING MATERIAL | GAITONDE, MEGHA MEHTA | — |
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 4 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17588951 | MANUFACTURING METHOD OF SOUNDPROOF CUSHIONING MATERIAL AND SOUNDPROOF CUSHIONING MATERIAL | GAITONDE, MEGHA MEHTA | 15d |
| 19029279 | MANUFACTURING METHOD OF SOUNDPROOF CUSHIONING MATERIAL AND SOUNDPROOF CUSHIONING MATERIAL | GAITONDE, MEGHA MEHTA | — |
| 19029321 | MANUFACTURING METHOD OF SOUNDPROOF CUSHIONING MATERIAL AND SOUNDPROOF CUSHIONING MATERIAL | GAITONDE, MEGHA MEHTA | — |
| 19029213 | MANUFACTURING METHOD OF SOUNDPROOF CUSHIONING MATERIAL AND SOUNDPROOF CUSHIONING MATERIAL | GAITONDE, MEGHA MEHTA | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1781 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19029279 | MANUFACTURING METHOD OF SOUNDPROOF CUSHIONING MATERIAL AND SOUNDPROOF CUSHIONING MATERIAL | GAITONDE, MEGHA MEHTA | — | §102§103§112DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 17, 2025 |
| 19029321 | MANUFACTURING METHOD OF SOUNDPROOF CUSHIONING MATERIAL AND SOUNDPROOF CUSHIONING MATERIAL | GAITONDE, MEGHA MEHTA | — | §102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 17, 2025 |
| 19029213 | MANUFACTURING METHOD OF SOUNDPROOF CUSHIONING MATERIAL AND SOUNDPROOF CUSHIONING MATERIAL | GAITONDE, MEGHA MEHTA | — | §102§112DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 17, 2025 |
| 17588951 | MANUFACTURING METHOD OF SOUNDPROOF CUSHIONING MATERIAL AND SOUNDPROOF CUSHIONING MATERIAL | GAITONDE, MEGHA MEHTA | 1781 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | 15d | Pending | Jan 31, 2022 |
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