Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
5 pending office actions • 3 art units • 5 examiners • 0 of 5 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 10 patents granted in the last 365 days
Toyocolor Co. Ltd. currently manages 5 pending office actions within the Chemistry & Materials technology area. These actions are distributed among 5 distinct examiners. These matters are spread across 3 distinct art units. This indicates that while the technical scope is limited to three groups, several different examiners are reviewing the applications. This distribution suggests that the portfolio's current legal challenges are spread across multiple specialized domains within the broader chemistry field.
FROST, ANTHONY J is identified as the busiest examiner for this portfolio. However, this examiner is only responsible for 1 pending office action. This suggests that no single examiner holds a dominant share of the current workload. Practitioners should prepare for varied examination styles across the 3 distinct art units involved. Because each of the 5 distinct examiners is managing exactly one action, the prosecution strategy must be tailored to different sets of examiner preferences and technical interpretations simultaneously.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 2 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 | 3 (60%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (40%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FROST, ANTHONY J | 1 | 52.7% | +20.1% |
| DINH, BACH T | 1 | 55.4% | +31.3% |
| ANTHONY, JOSEPH DAVID | 1 | 73.2% | +5.2% |
| ZHANG, RUIYUN | 1 | 70.4% | +10.6% |
| WEST, ROBERT GENE | 1 | 74.8% | +24.4% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18278618 | THERMOPLASTIC RESIN COMPOSITION TO BE USED IN ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE ABSORBER, AND MOLDED ARTICLE | ANTHONY, JOSEPH DAVID | 15d |
| 18033191 | CHROMATIC PROCESS COLOR INKJET INK | ZHANG, RUIYUN | 21d |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18033191 | CHROMATIC PROCESS COLOR INKJET INK | ZHANG, RUIYUN | 21d |
| 18563367 | THERMOPLASTIC RESIN COMPOSITION AND MOLDED BODY | FROST, ANTHONY J | — |
| 18562325 | RESIN COMPOSITION FOR SECONDARY BATTERY ELECTRODES, METHOD FOR PRODUCING MIXTURE SLURRY FOR SECONDARY BATTERY ELECTRODES, METHOD FOR PRODUCING ELECTRODE FILM, AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING SECONDARY BATTERY | DINH, BACH T | — |
| 18021551 | CARBON NANOTUBE DISPERSION, CARBON NANOTUBE RESIN COMPOSITION, MIXTURE SLURRY, ELECTRODE FILM, NONAQUEOUS ELECTROLYTE SECONDARY BATTERY, AND METHOD OF PRODUCING MIXTURE SLURRY | WEST, ROBERT GENE | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1764 | 1 |
| 1782 | 1 |
| 1721 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18563367 | THERMOPLASTIC RESIN COMPOSITION AND MOLDED BODY | FROST, ANTHONY J | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 21, 2023 |
| 18562325 | RESIN COMPOSITION FOR SECONDARY BATTERY ELECTRODES, METHOD FOR PRODUCING MIXTURE SLURRY FOR SECONDARY BATTERY ELECTRODES, METHOD FOR PRODUCING ELECTRODE FILM, AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING SECONDARY BATTERY | DINH, BACH T | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 19, 2023 |
| 18278618 | THERMOPLASTIC RESIN COMPOSITION TO BE USED IN ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE ABSORBER, AND MOLDED ARTICLE | ANTHONY, JOSEPH DAVID | 1764 | §102§112 | Final Rejection | 15d | Pending | Aug 23, 2023 |
| 18033191 | CHROMATIC PROCESS COLOR INKJET INK | ZHANG, RUIYUN | 1782 | §102§103§112 | Final Rejection | 21d | Pending | Apr 21, 2023 |
| 18021551 | CARBON NANOTUBE DISPERSION, CARBON NANOTUBE RESIN COMPOSITION, MIXTURE SLURRY, ELECTRODE FILM, NONAQUEOUS ELECTROLYTE SECONDARY BATTERY, AND METHOD OF PRODUCING MIXTURE SLURRY | WEST, ROBERT GENE | 1721 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 15, 2023 |
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