Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
3 pending office actions • 3 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 4 patents granted in the last 365 days
Takemoto Yushi Kabushiki Kaisha maintains a company patent portfolio in the Chemistry & Materials technology area. The portfolio currently includes 3 pending office actions. These 3 pending office actions are spread across 3 distinct examiners and 3 distinct art units. This one-to-one-to-one relationship between actions, examiners, and units indicates a highly diversified prosecution landscape where each case is handled by a different individual in a different department.
MCKINNON, LASHAWNDA T is the busiest examiner for the portfolio, responsible for 1 busiest examiner pending office action. Since there are 3 pending office actions and 3 distinct examiners, the workload is perfectly balanced. The 3 distinct art units suggest that the company's chemical research is being examined in three separate specialized areas at the USPTO, requiring tailored strategies for each unit.
For a patent practitioner, managing 3 pending office actions across 3 distinct examiners requires handling three different examiner styles. No single examiner has an outsized influence on the portfolio, as shown by the 1 busiest examiner pending office action count. The presence of 3 distinct art units means the company must navigate the specific standards of three different technical groups.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 3 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.
Every pending office action with a known statutory deadline, placed on a days-until-due axis. Dots left of Today are overdue; the further right, the more runway. Cases that share a deadline window stack vertically. 3 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.
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 (33%) |
| §112 only | 1 (33%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (33%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| MCKINNON, LASHAWNDA T | 1 | 53.9% | +30.2% |
| SINGH-PANDEY, ARTI R | 1 | 70.6% | +8.9% |
| KHAN, AMINA S | 1 | 47.5% | +43.0% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18684937 | SIZING AGENT FOR INORGANIC FIBER AND INORGANIC FIBER | MCKINNON, LASHAWNDA T | 47d |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18565600 | SYNTHETIC FIBER PROCESSING AGENT, AND SYNTHETIC FIBER | KHAN, AMINA S | 27d |
| 18684937 | SIZING AGENT FOR INORGANIC FIBER AND INORGANIC FIBER | MCKINNON, LASHAWNDA T | 47d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1789 | 1 |
| 1759 | 1 |
| 1761 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18684937 | SIZING AGENT FOR INORGANIC FIBER AND INORGANIC FIBER | MCKINNON, LASHAWNDA T | 1789 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | 47d | Pending | Feb 20, 2024 |
| 18567579 | SIZING AGENT FOR INORGANIC FIBERS, INORGANIC FIBERS, METHOD FOR PRODUCING SAME, AND COMPOSITE MATERIAL | SINGH-PANDEY, ARTI R | 1759 | §103 | Final Rejection | 4d overdue | Pending | Dec 06, 2023 |
| 18565600 | SYNTHETIC FIBER PROCESSING AGENT, AND SYNTHETIC FIBER | KHAN, AMINA S | 1761 | §112 | Non-Final OA | 27d | Pending | Nov 30, 2023 |
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