Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
1 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Self Settled Trust Of Yamada Kikuo has 1 pending office action in the Chemistry & Materials technology area. The prosecution of this portfolio is handled by 1 distinct examiner, which indicates a presence within the USPTO's examination structure for the trust's current filings. This concentration allows for a focus on the technical merits of the pending application during the prosecution phase.
The busiest examiner, WORRELL, KEVIN, is managing 1 busiest examiner pending action. With 1 distinct examiner assigned to the portfolio, this person oversees all active office actions. The prosecution is situated within 1 distinct art unit, ensuring that the examination remains within an administrative group. This creates a point of contact for all current prosecution matters handled by the office.
Managing 1 pending office action in the Chemistry & Materials sector suggests an intellectual property strategy. The use of 1 distinct art unit limits the complexity of the prosecution. This environment is for maintaining arguments and responses during the examination of the company's current patent efforts. Practitioners can focus their resources on the requirements of the 1 examiner involved in the case.
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 | 1 (100%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| WORRELL, KEVIN | 1 | 12.5% | -3.1% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 15168624 | BASE FABRIC FOR DISPOSABLE TEXTILE PRODUCT AND DISPOSABLE TEXTILE PRODUCT USING SAME | WORRELL, KEVIN | 19d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1789 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 15168624 | BASE FABRIC FOR DISPOSABLE TEXTILE PRODUCT AND DISPOSABLE TEXTILE PRODUCT USING SAME | WORRELL, KEVIN | 1789 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 19d overdue | Pending | May 31, 2016 |
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