Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
2 pending office actions • 0 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Shikoku Chemicals Corporation currently manages 2 pending office actions within its patent portfolio. These actions are distributed across 2 distinct examiners, showing a direct ratio of pending matters to examining personnel. This distribution suggests that the company's legal strategy involves multiple points of contact at the patent office simultaneously.
The data indicates that there are 0 distinct art units associated with these filings, reflecting a specific classification status. COPENHEAVER, BLAINE R serves as the busiest examiner for the portfolio, responsible for 1 pending office action. Because the busiest examiner handles 1 of the total 2 pending office actions, the workload is distributed between the 2 distinct examiners involved in the prosecution process.
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 |
|---|---|
| Double-patenting + other | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| COPENHEAVER, BLAINE R | 1 | 85.5% | +18.4% |
| ELHILO, EISA B | 1 | 83.0% | +16.2% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18724363 | ORGANIC FILM AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING SAME | COPENHEAVER, BLAINE R | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18861109 | CLEANING AGENT COMPOSITION AND CLEANING METHOD | ELHILO, EISA B | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18724363 | ORGANIC FILM AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING SAME | COPENHEAVER, BLAINE R | — |
| 18861109 | CLEANING AGENT COMPOSITION AND CLEANING METHOD | ELHILO, EISA B | — |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18724363 | ORGANIC FILM AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING SAME | COPENHEAVER, BLAINE R | — | §102§103DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 10, 2024 |
| 18861109 | CLEANING AGENT COMPOSITION AND CLEANING METHOD | ELHILO, EISA B | — | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 28, 2024 |
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