Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Chemistry & Materials • Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics
4 pending office actions • 2 art units • 4 examiners • 0 of 4 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 11 patents granted in the last 365 days
Shoei Chemical Inc. currently manages 4 pending office actions within the Chemistry & Materials technology area. These actions are distributed across 2 distinct art units, indicating a concentrated focus within the USPTO structure. The portfolio involves 4 distinct examiners, which suggests that each pending matter is being handled by a different individual. This distribution ensures that no single examiner is managing multiple files simultaneously for this entity.
HENRY, CALEB E is identified as the busiest examiner for this company, currently overseeing 1 pending office action. This specific examiner's workload represents a portion of the total actions pending for the portfolio. The alignment of distinct examiners with the pending actions highlights a lack of examiner concentration. Practitioners should note that while the actions are spread across multiple examiners, they remain within only 2 distinct art units, which may imply technical similarities between the filings despite the different personnel involved.
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 | 1 (25%) |
| §102 only | 1 (25%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| HENRY, CALEB E | 1 | 86.8% | +6.0% |
| BAKSHI, PANCHAM | 1 | 76.8% | +30.2% |
| YOUNG, WILLIAM D | 1 | 54.3% | +15.2% |
| CHEN, YU | 1 | 67.9% | +29.6% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18672754 | ELECTROLUMINESCENT DEVICES WITH HYBRID TRANSPORT LAYERS | HENRY, CALEB E | — |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18150976 | LIGHT EMITTING DIODES AND METHOD OF MAKING THEREOF BY SELECTIVELY GROWING ACTIVE LAYERS FROM TRENCH SEPARATED AREAS | CHEN, YU | 5d |
| 18657548 | THERMALLY STABLE POLYTHIOL LIGANDS WITH PENDANT SOLUBILIZING MOIETIES | BAKSHI, PANCHAM | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18346485 | METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING ELECTRONIC COMPONENT | YOUNG, WILLIAM D | 30d overdue |
| 18150976 | LIGHT EMITTING DIODES AND METHOD OF MAKING THEREOF BY SELECTIVELY GROWING ACTIVE LAYERS FROM TRENCH SEPARATED AREAS | CHEN, YU | 5d |
| 18657548 | THERMALLY STABLE POLYTHIOL LIGANDS WITH PENDANT SOLUBILIZING MOIETIES | BAKSHI, PANCHAM | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1761 | 1 |
| 2896 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18672754 | ELECTROLUMINESCENT DEVICES WITH HYBRID TRANSPORT LAYERS | HENRY, CALEB E | — | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 23, 2024 |
| 18657548 | THERMALLY STABLE POLYTHIOL LIGANDS WITH PENDANT SOLUBILIZING MOIETIES | BAKSHI, PANCHAM | — | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 07, 2024 |
| 18346485 | METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING ELECTRONIC COMPONENT | YOUNG, WILLIAM D | 1761 | §103 | Final Rejection | 30d overdue | Pending | Jul 03, 2023 |
| 18150976 | LIGHT EMITTING DIODES AND METHOD OF MAKING THEREOF BY SELECTIVELY GROWING ACTIVE LAYERS FROM TRENCH SEPARATED AREAS | CHEN, YU | 2896 | §102§103§112 | Final Rejection | 5d | Pending | Jan 06, 2023 |
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