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
Sumitomo Heavy Industries Process Equipent Co. Ltd. has 1 pending office action in the Chemistry & Materials technology area. This single action is assigned to 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit, representing a focused and singular point of contact for the company's current patent prosecution. The use of only 1 distinct art unit indicates that the current intellectual property activity is confined to a specific niche within the Chemistry & Materials sector.
The busiest examiner, SORKIN, DAVID L, is responsible for the 1 busiest examiner pending action. With the total of 1 pending office action, the prosecution strategy for this portfolio is currently limited to the interactions with this 1 distinct examiner. This 1 busiest examiner pending action constitutes the entirety of the company's active office action response requirements. Consequently, the progress of the prosecution is subject to the specific examination style of SORKIN, DAVID L within the 1 distinct art unit, requiring a tailored approach to this single point of 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| SORKIN, DAVID L | 1 | 67.4% | +12.8% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18506990 | AGITATOR | SORKIN, DAVID L | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18506990 | AGITATOR | SORKIN, DAVID L | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1774 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18506990 | AGITATOR | SORKIN, DAVID L | 1774 | §102§103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Nov 10, 2023 |
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