Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
1 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Sumitomo Heavy Industries Modern Ltd. has 1 pending office action in the Chemistry & Materials technology area. This 1 action is assigned to 1 distinct examiner within 1 distinct art unit. The limited number of pending matters indicates a very focused or early-stage prosecution effort for the company in this technological field. With only 1 pending office action, the company's current strategy is concentrated on a single application. This singular focus allows for a precise legal approach directed at a specific technical advancement within the material science sector.
The busiest examiner for the portfolio is YE, XINWEN, who is managing 1 pending office action. This examiner is responsible for the company's entire pending workload. Because there is only 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit involved, the outcome of the company's current prosecution depends entirely on the review of this single matter. Practitioners should focus on the specific requirements of YE, XINWEN and the standards of the 1 distinct art unit to successfully navigate this 1 pending office action. The success of the company's immediate patenting efforts is tied to this individual examiner's review.
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 |
|---|---|
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| YE, XINWEN | 1 | 43.1% | +44.3% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19185308 | EXTRUSION FILM-FORMING APPARATUS | YE, XINWEN | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19185308 | EXTRUSION FILM-FORMING APPARATUS | YE, XINWEN | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1754 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19185308 | EXTRUSION FILM-FORMING APPARATUS | YE, XINWEN | 1754 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Apr 22, 2025 |
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Start Free TrialSumitomo Heavy Industries Modern Ltd. has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Xinwen Ye has the most, with 1 of Sumitomo Heavy Industries Modern Ltd.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Chemistry & Materials (USPTO Tech Center 1700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
