Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals • Chemistry & Materials • Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
4 pending office actions • 4 art units • 4 examiners • 0 of 4 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Sun Chemical B V operates in the Chemistry & Materials technology area with 4 pending office actions. These actions are distributed across 4 distinct art units, indicating a broad range of chemical or material science research. The presence of 4 pending office actions shows that the company is actively pursuing patent protection for a variety of distinct chemical innovations.
The company's prosecution involves 4 distinct examiners, ensuring that each pending matter is handled by a different individual. LEWIS, JUSTIN V is the busiest examiner for Sun Chemical B V, currently managing 1 pending office action. The use of 4 distinct examiners across 4 distinct art units for 4 pending office actions shows a highly distributed prosecution strategy. This ensures that each application is reviewed by an examiner with specific expertise in one of the 4 distinct art units.
For practitioners, this distribution means that there is no single point of contact at the patent office for the company's current portfolio. Each of the 4 pending office actions is subject to the independent review of a different examiner in a different art unit. This requires a versatile prosecution strategy that can adapt to the varying standards and practices across the Chemistry & Materials sector.
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 (25%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 3 (75%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| LEWIS, JUSTIN V | 1 | 55.3% | +17.6% |
| KRUER, KEVIN R | 1 | 26.8% | +29.4% |
| FREEMAN, JOHN D | 1 | 45.9% | +6.8% |
| MITCHELL, EDWIN COLEMAN | 1 | 32.1% | +64.8% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18727769 | WATER-BASED DE-METALLIZATION RESIST | LEWIS, JUSTIN V | — |
| 18708410 | COMPOSTABLE COLDSEAL COHESIVE | KRUER, KEVIN R | — |
| 18254421 | A SEED SURFACE COMPOSITION COMPRISING A DPP PIGMENT AND A SEED TREATED WITH SAID COMPOSITION | MITCHELL, EDWIN COLEMAN | — |
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 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18727769 | WATER-BASED DE-METALLIZATION RESIST | LEWIS, JUSTIN V | — |
| 18708410 | COMPOSTABLE COLDSEAL COHESIVE | KRUER, KEVIN R | — |
| 18254421 | A SEED SURFACE COMPOSITION COMPRISING A DPP PIGMENT AND A SEED TREATED WITH SAID COMPOSITION | MITCHELL, EDWIN COLEMAN | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3637 | 1 |
| 1791 | 1 |
| 1787 | 1 |
| 1619 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18727769 | WATER-BASED DE-METALLIZATION RESIST | LEWIS, JUSTIN V | 3637 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 10, 2024 |
| 18708410 | COMPOSTABLE COLDSEAL COHESIVE | KRUER, KEVIN R | 1791 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 08, 2024 |
| 18256579 | NEAR-INFRARED (NIR) TRANSPARENT NEUTRAL BLACK SOLID SOLUTION PIGMENT | FREEMAN, JOHN D | 1787 | §103 | Final Rejection | 71d overdue | Pending | Jun 08, 2023 |
| 18254421 | A SEED SURFACE COMPOSITION COMPRISING A DPP PIGMENT AND A SEED TREATED WITH SAID COMPOSITION | MITCHELL, EDWIN COLEMAN | 1619 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 25, 2023 |
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