Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
2 pending office actions • 1 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 8 patents granted in the last 365 days
TOWA Corporation has 2 pending office actions in the Chemistry & Materials technology area. These actions are assigned to 2 distinct examiners, meaning each examiner is responsible for a single application. The portfolio is concentrated in 1 distinct art unit, which provides a unified technical environment for the prosecution of these applications. This focus helps ensure that the technical standards applied are consistent across the different examiners.
LEE, EDMUND H is the busiest examiner, with 1 busiest examiner pending action. This represents a portion of the total pending workload. Although there are multiple examiners, the single art unit provides a stable backdrop for the Chemistry & Materials filings. Practitioners should be prepared for different examiner styles while relying on the art unit's specific technical guidelines. This structure allows for a balanced approach to prosecution, leveraging the expertise of different examiners within a specialized technical group.
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 (50%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (50%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| LEE, EDMUND H | 1 | 69.6% | +17.5% |
| WILLIAMS, CEDRICK S | 1 | 60.1% | +26.3% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18995789 | MOLDING DIE, RESIN MOLDING APPARATUS, AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING RESIN MOLDED PRODUCT | LEE, EDMUND H | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18867859 | RESIN MOLDING APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING RESIN MOLDED PRODUCT | WILLIAMS, CEDRICK S | 13d |
| 18995789 | MOLDING DIE, RESIN MOLDING APPARATUS, AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING RESIN MOLDED PRODUCT | LEE, EDMUND H | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1749 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18995789 | MOLDING DIE, RESIN MOLDING APPARATUS, AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING RESIN MOLDED PRODUCT | LEE, EDMUND H | — | §102§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jan 16, 2025 |
| 18867859 | RESIN MOLDING APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING RESIN MOLDED PRODUCT | WILLIAMS, CEDRICK S | 1749 | §103 | Final Rejection | 13d | Pending | Nov 21, 2024 |
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