Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Chemistry & Materials • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
5 pending office actions • 3 art units • 5 examiners • 0 of 5 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 10 patents granted in the last 365 days
Sekisui Kasei Co. Ltd. is currently managing 5 pending office actions in the Chemistry & Materials technology area. These actions are assigned to 5 distinct examiners, ensuring that each pending matter is being reviewed by a different official. The prosecution is distributed across 3 distinct art units, showing a range of technical focuses within the chemistry sector for the company's current applications.
The busiest examiner for the company is COHEN, MICHAEL P, who is responsible for 1 busiest examiner pending office action. Since there are 5 pending office actions and 5 distinct examiners, the workload is evenly split among them. The fact that 5 distinct examiners are operating within 3 distinct art units suggests that some examiners are working within the same technical groups to review the company's applications. This structure requires managing 5 separate examiner interactions while coordinating technical arguments across the 3 distinct art units currently active 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 | 3 (60%) |
| §102 only | 1 (20%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (20%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| COHEN, MICHAEL P | 1 | 58.7% | +27.5% |
| REDDY, KARUNA P | 1 | 42.5% | +10.4% |
| BLAISE, BRADFORD CHRISTOPHER | 1 | 60.7% | +31.5% |
| KRYLOVA, IRINA | 1 | 36.7% | +48.5% |
| FISCHER, JUSTIN R | 1 | 44.3% | +2.3% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18851797 | PARTICLE-CONTAINING HYDROGEL | COHEN, MICHAEL P | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18851797 | PARTICLE-CONTAINING HYDROGEL | COHEN, MICHAEL P | — |
| 18644454 | HOLLOW POLYMER PARTICLES AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING SAME | REDDY, KARUNA P | — |
| 18695488 | BIOELECTRODE | BLAISE, BRADFORD CHRISTOPHER | — |
| 18283084 | HOLLOW PARTICLES AND USE THEREOF | KRYLOVA, IRINA | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1764 | 2 |
| 3794 | 1 |
| 1749 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18851797 | PARTICLE-CONTAINING HYDROGEL | COHEN, MICHAEL P | — | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 27, 2024 |
| 18644454 | HOLLOW POLYMER PARTICLES AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING SAME | REDDY, KARUNA P | 1764 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Apr 24, 2024 |
| 18695488 | BIOELECTRODE | BLAISE, BRADFORD CHRISTOPHER | 3794 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 26, 2024 |
| 18283084 | HOLLOW PARTICLES AND USE THEREOF | KRYLOVA, IRINA | 1764 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Sep 20, 2023 |
| 18283094 | COMPOSITE RESIN PARTICLES, COMPOSITE RESIN FOAMING PARTICLES, AND FOAM MOLDED BODY | FISCHER, JUSTIN R | 1749 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Sep 20, 2023 |
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