Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
3 pending office actions • 1 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 3 patents granted in the last 365 days
Tokai Optical Co. Ltd. is currently managing 2 pending office actions. These actions are distributed among 2 distinct examiners, indicating that the company is dealing with multiple points of contact within the patent office. The data reports 0 distinct art units for these active matters, focusing the analysis on the individual examiners involved. This distribution requires the company to manage different examination styles simultaneously without the benefit of a centralized administrative unit.
The busiest examiner for the portfolio is ABDUR, RAHMAN, who is handling 1 busiest examiner pending action. This represents 1 of the active office actions for the company. Because there are 2 distinct examiners for the actions, the workload is distributed across multiple personnel rather than being centralized under a single individual. This structure suggests that the company's current patent applications are being evaluated independently by different examiners, which may lead to varied outcomes.
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 | 2 (67%) |
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ABDUR, RAHMAN | 1 | 74.0% | +17.8% |
| DABBI, JYOTSNA V | 1 | 62.5% | +23.2% |
| SHUKLA, KRUPA | 1 | 15.2% | +22.6% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18830717 | NOTCH FILTER | DABBI, JYOTSNA V | — |
| 18697767 | ANTI-FOGGING PLASTIC SPECTACLE LENS | SHUKLA, KRUPA | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18852226 | REFRACTIVE DIOPTRIC POWER DETERMINATION METHOD | ABDUR, RAHMAN | — |
| 18830717 | NOTCH FILTER | DABBI, JYOTSNA V | — |
| 18697767 | ANTI-FOGGING PLASTIC SPECTACLE LENS | SHUKLA, KRUPA | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1787 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18852226 | REFRACTIVE DIOPTRIC POWER DETERMINATION METHOD | ABDUR, RAHMAN | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 27, 2024 |
| 18830717 | NOTCH FILTER | DABBI, JYOTSNA V | — | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 11, 2024 |
| 18697767 | ANTI-FOGGING PLASTIC SPECTACLE LENS | SHUKLA, KRUPA | 1787 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jun 10, 2024 |
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