Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
5 pending office actions • 3 art units • 5 examiners • 0 of 5 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 5 patents granted in the last 365 days
Sanyo Chemical Industries Ltd. has 5 pending office actions within the Chemistry & Materials technology area. These actions are distributed among 5 distinct examiners and 3 distinct art units. This distribution shows that every pending matter is being reviewed by a different individual.
VASISTH, VISHAL V is the busiest examiner for this portfolio, currently holding 1 pending office action. The use of 3 distinct art units suggests that the company's chemistry and materials filings are spread across several technical subgroups.
With 5 distinct examiners for the pending office actions, there is no concentration of workload with any single examiner. However, the 3 distinct art units indicate some technical clustering. Practitioners must manage different examiner relationships while navigating the standards of the involved art units.
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 | 3 (60%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (40%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| VASISTH, VISHAL V | 1 | 72.3% | +33.4% |
| HINES, LATOSHA D | 1 | 51.2% | +21.7% |
| EASHOO, MARK | 1 | 37.3% | +35.9% |
| DAVIDSON IV, CULLEN LEE GARRETT | 1 | 40.3% | +45.4% |
| QIAO, HUIHONG | 1 | 71.2% | +25.0% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18878262 | VISCOSITY INDEX IMPROVER COMPOSITION AND LUBRICATING OIL COMPOSITION | VASISTH, VISHAL V | — |
| 18025238 | VISCOSITY INDEX IMPROVING AGENT AND LUBRICATING OIL COMPOSITION | DAVIDSON IV, CULLEN LEE GARRETT | — |
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 5 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17926286 | ANTISTATIC AGENT, ANTISTATIC RESIN COMPOSITION, AND MOLDED PRODUCT | QIAO, HUIHONG | 53d |
| 18878262 | VISCOSITY INDEX IMPROVER COMPOSITION AND LUBRICATING OIL COMPOSITION | VASISTH, VISHAL V | — |
| 18872097 | VISCOSITY INDEX IMPROVER COMPOSITION AND LUBRICATING OIL COMPOSITION | HINES, LATOSHA D | — |
| 18012016 | ANTISTATIC AGENT, ANTISTATIC RESIN COMPOSITION, AND MOLDED ARTICLE | EASHOO, MARK | — |
| 18025238 | VISCOSITY INDEX IMPROVING AGENT AND LUBRICATING OIL COMPOSITION | DAVIDSON IV, CULLEN LEE GARRETT | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1771 | 2 |
| 1767 | 2 |
| 1763 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18878262 | VISCOSITY INDEX IMPROVER COMPOSITION AND LUBRICATING OIL COMPOSITION | VASISTH, VISHAL V | 1771 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 23, 2024 |
| 18872097 | VISCOSITY INDEX IMPROVER COMPOSITION AND LUBRICATING OIL COMPOSITION | HINES, LATOSHA D | 1771 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 05, 2024 |
| 18012016 | ANTISTATIC AGENT, ANTISTATIC RESIN COMPOSITION, AND MOLDED ARTICLE | EASHOO, MARK | 1767 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 29, 2023 |
| 18025238 | VISCOSITY INDEX IMPROVING AGENT AND LUBRICATING OIL COMPOSITION | DAVIDSON IV, CULLEN LEE GARRETT | 1767 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Mar 08, 2023 |
| 17926286 | ANTISTATIC AGENT, ANTISTATIC RESIN COMPOSITION, AND MOLDED PRODUCT | QIAO, HUIHONG | 1763 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 53d | Pending | Nov 18, 2022 |
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