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
Shinagawa Refractories Co. Ltd. currently has 1 pending office action in the Chemistry & Materials technology area. This prosecution is handled within 1 distinct art unit. The involvement of 1 distinct examiner suggests the current organization of the portfolio at the patent office. This structure defines the Chemistry & Materials filings.
PEPITONE, MICHAEL F is the busiest examiner for this company. This individual is responsible for 1 busiest examiner pending action. As the total number of pending office actions is 1, this examiner manages the active workload for the portfolio. This centralization facilitates communication with the patent office.
The 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit indicate the focus of the examination process. For a practitioner, the results of the 1 pending office action will affect the status of the Shinagawa Refractories Co. Ltd. applications. The prosecution remains centered on the proceedings involving PEPITONE, MICHAEL F. This examiner oversees the 1 busiest examiner pending action.
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 |
|---|---|
| §112 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| PEPITONE, MICHAEL F | 1 | 74.4% | +21.9% |
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 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18127867 | MUD MATERIAL | PEPITONE, MICHAEL F | 70d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1767 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18127867 | MUD MATERIAL | PEPITONE, MICHAEL F | 1767 | §112 | Final Rejection | 70d | Pending | Mar 29, 2023 |
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