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
Seiren Co., Ltd. currently has 3 pending office actions within the Chemistry & Materials technology area. These actions are being handled by 3 distinct examiners, which indicates that each pending matter is under the review of a different USPTO official. This distribution requires the company to manage separate examiner relationships simultaneously, as no single examiner is overseeing multiple cases in this set of pending office actions.
The pending office actions are located within 2 distinct art units. This suggests that while the technical subject matter is concentrated in the Chemistry & Materials area, the prosecution is split between different administrative groups at the USPTO. ANDREW T PIZIALI is the busiest examiner for the portfolio, currently responsible for 1 pending office action. Because the busiest examiner pending count is this single action, the workload is evenly split among the distinct examiners.
Practitioners should note that with the distinct examiners for the pending office actions, there is no opportunity to leverage a single examiner's feedback across multiple pending cases. The involvement of 2 distinct art units also means that the company must navigate the specific internal practices of different USPTO divisions. This structure suggests a need for individualized prosecution tactics for each of the active matters currently in the portfolio.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| PIZIALI, ANDREW T | 1 | 28.3% | +27.3% |
| TATESURE, VINCENT | 1 | 44.9% | +31.5% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18897240 | CONDUCTIVE FABRIC | PIZIALI, ANDREW T | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18897240 | CONDUCTIVE FABRIC | PIZIALI, ANDREW T | — |
| 18724810 | SYNTHETIC LEATHER | TATESURE, VINCENT | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1786 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18897240 | CONDUCTIVE FABRIC | PIZIALI, ANDREW T | — | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 26, 2024 |
| 18724810 | SYNTHETIC LEATHER | TATESURE, VINCENT | 1786 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 27, 2024 |
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