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 • 2 patents granted in the last 365 days
Sanyo Special Steel Co. Ltd. is currently navigating 2 pending office actions within the Chemistry & Materials technology area. This prosecution activity is distributed among 2 distinct examiners. The concentration of these matters within 1 distinct art unit suggests a specialized focus for the company's current patenting efforts in this field. Practitioners should note that the alignment of 2 pending office actions with 2 distinct examiners means each examiner is currently reviewing a single matter.
JACKSON, MONIQUE R serves as the busiest examiner for this portfolio, currently handling 1 busiest examiner pending office action. Because the total number of pending office actions is 2 and there are 2 distinct examiners, no single examiner holds a majority of the workload. The presence of only 1 distinct art unit indicates that the legal challenges or reviews are occurring within a very specific technical group at the office. This structure allows for a focused approach to overcoming rejections while managing relationships with 2 distinct examiners.
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%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| JACKSON, MONIQUE R | 1 | 34.9% | +44.1% |
| ROE, JESSEE RANDALL | 1 | 76.4% | +7.8% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18877318 | Nickel-Based Alloy Powder for Lamination Molding and Lamination Molded Body | JACKSON, MONIQUE 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 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18877318 | Nickel-Based Alloy Powder for Lamination Molding and Lamination Molded Body | JACKSON, MONIQUE R | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1787 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18877318 | Nickel-Based Alloy Powder for Lamination Molding and Lamination Molded Body | JACKSON, MONIQUE R | 1787 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 20, 2024 |
| 18704393 | Ni Alloy Powder Suitable for Additive Manufacturing and Additively Manufactured Article Obtained Using Same | ROE, JESSEE RANDALL | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 24, 2024 |
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