Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 3 patents granted in the last 365 days
Sumitomo Chemical Co., Ltd. maintains a presence in the Chemistry & Materials technology area with 2 pending office actions currently in the pipeline. These actions are distributed across 2 distinct examiners, showing that the company is engaging with multiple officials at the patent office. The involvement of 2 distinct art units indicates that the company's current filings span different technical sub-sectors within the materials science field, requiring engagement with 2 specialized review groups.
The busiest examiner for the portfolio is NGUYEN, HA S, who is currently managing 1 busiest examiner pending office action. This represents 1 of the company's total of 2 pending office actions, as the workload is split among the distinct examiners. This distribution shows that no single examiner dominates the company's current prosecution landscape. For a practitioner, this profile indicates a workload where the progress of the portfolio is split between 2 distinct examiners and 2 distinct art units.
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 |
|---|---|
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| NGUYEN, HA S | 1 | 58.7% | -21.0% |
| FROST, ANTHONY J | 1 | 52.7% | +20.1% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18034569 | CHIRAL POLYMERS AND USE THEREOF | FROST, ANTHONY J | 19d |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18034569 | CHIRAL POLYMERS AND USE THEREOF | FROST, ANTHONY J | 19d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1766 | 1 |
| 1782 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18269403 | THERMALLY CONDUCTIVE POLYMER | NGUYEN, HA S | 1766 | §102§112DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 23, 2023 |
| 18034569 | CHIRAL POLYMERS AND USE THEREOF | FROST, ANTHONY J | 1782 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | 19d | Pending | Apr 28, 2023 |
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