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
Taiki Fukase is currently managing 1 pending office action in the Chemistry & Materials technology area. This action is assigned to 1 distinct examiner, reflecting a focused prosecution effort for the active patent application. The presence of 1 distinct art unit indicates that the current workload is localized within a specific technical division of the patent office.
The busiest examiner for the portfolio is BOWMAN, ANDREW J, who is responsible for 1 busiest examiner pending action. This single action represents the total volume of 1 pending office action for the portfolio. Since the prosecution involves only 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit, the process is highly centralized. Practitioners can focus their strategy on the specific requirements and feedback of this examiner within the Chemistry & Materials field. The current state of the portfolio reflects a narrow but clear prosecution path for the intellectual property in this technology area.
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 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| BOWMAN, ANDREW J | 1 | 65.9% | +13.2% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18781032 | METHOD FOR PRODUCING CONDUCTIVE FIBER | BOWMAN, ANDREW J | 27d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1717 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18781032 | METHOD FOR PRODUCING CONDUCTIVE FIBER | BOWMAN, ANDREW J | 1717 | §103 | Final Rejection | 27d | Pending | Jul 23, 2024 |
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