Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
4 pending office actions • 3 art units • 4 examiners • 0 of 4 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 3 patents granted in the last 365 days
Sekisui Polymatech Co. Ltd. holds a company patent portfolio in the Chemistry & Materials technology area. The portfolio currently has 4 pending office actions, which are being reviewed by 4 distinct examiners. This indicates that every pending matter is being handled by a different individual, providing a range of examiner perspectives across the active applications.
The workload is distributed across 3 distinct art units, suggesting that the company's Chemistry & Materials innovations span several technical sub-specialties. BISTANY-RIEBMAN, JOSHUA PAGE is listed as the busiest examiner, although the 4 pending office actions are spread among the distinct examiners involved. This distribution means that no single examiner dominates the current prosecution landscape.
Practitioners must manage separate relationships across the 3 distinct art units to advance this portfolio. Since each pending office action is with a different examiner, the company faces independent sets of examination hurdles. The busiest examiner pending count of 1 reduces the risk that a single examiner's tendencies will negatively impact the entire portfolio of pending Chemistry & Materials matters.
Reviewing the history of the 4 distinct examiners within the Chemistry & Materials space can help anticipate potential hurdles. Effective communication with the assigned examiners is essential to clarify technical nuances and reach a favorable outcome. Monitoring the status of all pending office actions is vital for timely adjustments to the broader intellectual property strategy.
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 (25%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 3 (75%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| BISTANY-RIEBMAN, JOSHUA PAGE | 1 | — | — |
| FREEMAN, EMILY ELIZABETH | 1 | 72.7% | +14.3% |
| WHITE, SADIE | 1 | 48.8% | +31.6% |
| DICUS, TAMRA | 1 | 30.5% | +21.4% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18692582 | THERMALLY CONDUCTIVE COMPOSITION AND THERMALLY CONDUCTIVE MEMBER | BISTANY-RIEBMAN, JOSHUA PAGE | — |
| 18282650 | HEAT-CONDUCTIVE COMPOSITION, HEAT-CONDUCTIVE MEMBER, AND BATTERY MODULE | FREEMAN, EMILY ELIZABETH | — |
| 18267303 | BATTERY MODULE | WHITE, SADIE | — |
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 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18282650 | HEAT-CONDUCTIVE COMPOSITION, HEAT-CONDUCTIVE MEMBER, AND BATTERY MODULE | FREEMAN, EMILY ELIZABETH | — |
| 18267303 | BATTERY MODULE | WHITE, SADIE | — |
| 17639688 | THERMALLY CONDUCTIVE SHEET AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING SAME | DICUS, TAMRA | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1724 | 1 |
| 1721 | 1 |
| 1787 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18692582 | THERMALLY CONDUCTIVE COMPOSITION AND THERMALLY CONDUCTIVE MEMBER | BISTANY-RIEBMAN, JOSHUA PAGE | — | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 15, 2024 |
| 18282650 | HEAT-CONDUCTIVE COMPOSITION, HEAT-CONDUCTIVE MEMBER, AND BATTERY MODULE | FREEMAN, EMILY ELIZABETH | 1724 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Sep 18, 2023 |
| 18267303 | BATTERY MODULE | WHITE, SADIE | 1721 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jun 14, 2023 |
| 17639688 | THERMALLY CONDUCTIVE SHEET AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING SAME | DICUS, TAMRA | 1787 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Mar 02, 2022 |
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