Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Chemistry & Materials • Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics
4 pending office actions • 3 art units • 4 examiners • 0 of 4 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Shinkawa Ltd. currently has 4 pending office actions in the Chemistry & Materials technology area. These 4 actions are assigned to 4 distinct examiners, ensuring that each application is being reviewed by a different person. The workload is distributed across 3 distinct art units, which indicates that the company's chemical and material innovations are being evaluated in several different technical categories.
KOCH, GEORGE R is the busiest examiner for this portfolio, responsible for 1 of the pending office actions. Since there are 4 pending office actions and 4 distinct examiners, the workload is evenly divided among the assigned staff. The 3 distinct art units suggest that at least two of the 4 distinct examiners are likely working within the same administrative division at the patent office.
With 4 pending office actions, Shinkawa Ltd. maintains a steady level of activity in Chemistry & Materials. The 3 distinct art units provide a varied technical context for the 4 distinct examiners. Practitioners should track the 1 pending office action under KOCH, GEORGE R alongside the others to understand the specific examination patterns occurring within these 3 distinct art units.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 2 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 | 2 (50%) |
| §102 only | 1 (25%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 1 (25%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| KOCH, GEORGE R | 1 | 72.9% | +17.3% |
| LEE, KYOUNG | 1 | 93.2% | +5.0% |
| SCHATZ, CHRISTOPHER T | 1 | 62.5% | +27.0% |
| MULERO FLORES, ERIC MANUEL | 1 | 83.3% | +16.4% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18009984 | MANUFACTURING APPARATUS AND MANUFACTURING METHOD OF SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE | MULERO FLORES, ERIC MANUEL | 8d overdue |
| 18725132 | ELECTRONIC COMPONENT MOUNTING DEVICE AND ELECTRONIC COMPONENT MOUNTING METHOD | LEE, KYOUNG | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18009984 | MANUFACTURING APPARATUS AND MANUFACTURING METHOD OF SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE | MULERO FLORES, ERIC MANUEL | 8d overdue |
| 18270732 | SUCTION DEVICE, SUCTION UNIT, SUCTION METHOD, AND COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM | SCHATZ, CHRISTOPHER T | 43d |
| 19121789 | MOUNTING APPARATUS, MOUNTING METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM | KOCH, GEORGE R | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1745 | 1 |
| 1746 | 1 |
| 2898 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19121789 | MOUNTING APPARATUS, MOUNTING METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM | KOCH, GEORGE R | 1745 | §103§112DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 16, 2025 |
| 18725132 | ELECTRONIC COMPONENT MOUNTING DEVICE AND ELECTRONIC COMPONENT MOUNTING METHOD | LEE, KYOUNG | — | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 28, 2024 |
| 18270732 | SUCTION DEVICE, SUCTION UNIT, SUCTION METHOD, AND COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM | SCHATZ, CHRISTOPHER T | 1746 | §103 | Final Rejection | 43d | Pending | Jul 03, 2023 |
| 18009984 | MANUFACTURING APPARATUS AND MANUFACTURING METHOD OF SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE | MULERO FLORES, ERIC MANUEL | 2898 | §103 | Final Rejection | 8d overdue | Pending | Dec 13, 2022 |
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