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
Shun Sakamoto currently has 1 pending office action within the Chemistry & Materials technology area. The prosecution of this portfolio is handled by 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit. This indicates that the active intellectual property matters are currently focused within a single specialized area of the patent office. The lack of multiple pending actions suggests a very targeted approach to patent acquisition, where all current efforts are concentrated on a single application. This focus allows for a deep technical engagement with the specific requirements of the assigned art unit.
MORDECAI MIZANI LEAVITT is the busiest examiner for this portfolio, overseeing 1 pending office action. Because this 1 pending matter represents the entirety of the active prosecution, the timeline and results are subject to the specific review of this examiner. Practitioners should focus on the particular examination patterns of this individual to predict the next steps for this portfolio. Successfully resolving this 1 pending office action is the primary goal for the current prosecution cycle in the Chemistry & Materials domain. The concentration of the workload means that the company's immediate patent success relies on navigating the specific criteria set by this one examiner.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| LEAVITT, MORDECAI MIZANI | 1 | 100.0% | +0.0% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18337103 | EXHAUST GAS PURIFICATION CATALYST | LEAVITT, MORDECAI MIZANI | 31d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1742 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18337103 | EXHAUST GAS PURIFICATION CATALYST | LEAVITT, MORDECAI MIZANI | 1742 | §103 | Final Rejection | 31d overdue | Pending | Jun 19, 2023 |
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