Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
4 pending office actions • 3 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 4 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 5 patents granted in the last 365 days
Toyo Aluminium Kabushiki Kaisha manages a patent portfolio in the Chemistry & Materials technology area. The company currently has 4 pending office actions. This workload is distributed across 3 distinct examiners and 3 distinct art units. This distribution indicates that the company's patenting activity is spread across several technical specialties and different personnel within the patent office. The presence of 3 distinct art units suggests a diverse technical scope for the company's current filings. This diversity requires the company to manage multiple prosecution tracks simultaneously.
The busiest examiner for Toyo Aluminium Kabushiki Kaisha is CASE, SARAH CATHERINE, who is responsible for 2 pending office actions. This examiner handles 2 busiest examiner pending cases. The remaining 2 pending actions are split among the other 2 distinct examiners. This concentration with CASE, SARAH CATHERINE means that her decisions have a significant impact on the portfolio's overall progress. The use of 3 distinct art units requires the company to manage different procedural standards and examiner styles. This complex prosecution pipeline suggests a robust and multi-faceted legal strategy compared to a single-examiner portfolio. The presence of 4 pending office actions indicates an active phase of intellectual property development for the company.
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 |
|---|---|
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 4 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| CASE, SARAH CATHERINE | 2 | 41.1% | +50.8% |
| DUMBRIS, SETH M | 1 | 76.4% | +16.6% |
| CARPENTER, JOSHUA S | 1 | 51.9% | +36.9% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 4 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18275486 | PIGMENT DISPERSION | CASE, SARAH CATHERINE | 93d overdue |
| 18012880 | COMPOSITE PIGMENT, THERMOPLASTIC RESIN COMPOSITION CONTAINING SAME, AND MOLDED BODY | CASE, SARAH CATHERINE | 16d |
| 18284663 | PASTE COMPOSITION, AND METHOD FOR FORMING GERMANIUM COMPOUND LAYER | DUMBRIS, SETH M | 34d |
| 18031255 | METAL POWDER FOR ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING, METHOD OF MANUFACTURING AN ADDITIVE MANUFACTURED OBJECT USING THE METAL POWDER, AND THE ADDITIVE MANUFACTURED OBJECT | CARPENTER, JOSHUA S | — |
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 4 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18275486 | PIGMENT DISPERSION | CASE, SARAH CATHERINE | 93d overdue |
| 18012880 | COMPOSITE PIGMENT, THERMOPLASTIC RESIN COMPOSITION CONTAINING SAME, AND MOLDED BODY | CASE, SARAH CATHERINE | 16d |
| 18284663 | PASTE COMPOSITION, AND METHOD FOR FORMING GERMANIUM COMPOUND LAYER | DUMBRIS, SETH M | 34d |
| 18031255 | METAL POWDER FOR ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING, METHOD OF MANUFACTURING AN ADDITIVE MANUFACTURED OBJECT USING THE METAL POWDER, AND THE ADDITIVE MANUFACTURED OBJECT | CARPENTER, JOSHUA S | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1731 | 2 |
| 1784 | 1 |
| 1733 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18284663 | PASTE COMPOSITION, AND METHOD FOR FORMING GERMANIUM COMPOUND LAYER | DUMBRIS, SETH M | 1784 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | 34d | Pending | Sep 28, 2023 |
| 18275486 | PIGMENT DISPERSION | CASE, SARAH CATHERINE | 1731 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 93d overdue | Pending | Aug 02, 2023 |
| 18031255 | METAL POWDER FOR ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING, METHOD OF MANUFACTURING AN ADDITIVE MANUFACTURED OBJECT USING THE METAL POWDER, AND THE ADDITIVE MANUFACTURED OBJECT | CARPENTER, JOSHUA S | 1733 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 11, 2023 |
| 18012880 | COMPOSITE PIGMENT, THERMOPLASTIC RESIN COMPOSITION CONTAINING SAME, AND MOLDED BODY | CASE, SARAH CATHERINE | 1731 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 16d | Pending | Dec 23, 2022 |
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