Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Chemistry & Materials • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 7 patents granted in the last 365 days
Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd. has 3 pending office actions in the Chemistry & Materials technology area. These actions are assigned to 3 distinct examiners and 3 distinct art units. The busiest examiner is HILL, STEPHANI A, who is responsible for 1 pending action.
With 3 pending actions spread across 3 examiners and 3 art units, the portfolio's prosecution is decentralized. Each action faces a different examiner in a different technical group, which suggests that the portfolio covers a range of technical sub-specialties within the Chemistry & Materials field. This distribution of 3 pending actions requires practitioners to adapt to three different examination environments simultaneously. The lack of concentration in any single art unit or under any single examiner means that each matter must be managed independently. The current workload is distributed across the 3 distinct art units to address various technical aspects of the portfolio's sintered alloy technologies.
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 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| HILL, STEPHANI A | 1 | 29.4% | +44.2% |
| FREAY, CHARLES GRANT | 1 | 77.0% | +30.5% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18859202 | SINTERED MEMBER AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING SINTERED MEMBER | HILL, STEPHANI A | — |
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 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18859202 | SINTERED MEMBER AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING SINTERED MEMBER | HILL, STEPHANI A | — |
| 18834635 | INTERNAL GEAR PUMP | FREAY, CHARLES GRANT | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1784 | 1 |
| 3746 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18859202 | SINTERED MEMBER AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING SINTERED MEMBER | HILL, STEPHANI A | 1784 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 23, 2024 |
| 18834635 | INTERNAL GEAR PUMP | FREAY, CHARLES GRANT | 3746 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 31, 2024 |
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