Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
6 pending office actions • 2 art units • 6 examiners • 0 of 6 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 16 patents granted in the last 365 days
UBE Corporation has 4 pending office actions within the Chemistry & Materials technology area. These actions are distributed among 4 distinct examiners, yet all of them are concentrated within 1 distinct art unit. This concentration in 1 distinct art unit shows that while the subject matter is handled by different individuals, it falls under the same administrative supervision. The count of 4 pending office actions matches the count of 4 distinct examiners, which shows that no examiner is handling a larger share of the workload.
The busiest examiner, HALL, DEVE V., is responsible for 1 pending office action. Since each of the distinct examiners is managing 1 pending office action, HALL, DEVE V. shares the workload with the rest of the group. This distribution across the examiners within the Chemistry & Materials area allows the company to receive multiple perspectives while remaining within a technical group. Practitioners should monitor the pending office actions for consistency in how the 1 distinct art unit applies its standards.
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 | 5 (83%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (17%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| HALL, DEVE V. | 1 | 75.0% | +16.5% |
| WU, ANDREA | 1 | 68.4% | +20.1% |
| CARDA, DANIELLE MARIE | 1 | 83.2% | +13.0% |
| OTERO, KENNETH MAX | 1 | 52.4% | +43.3% |
| JOHNSTON, BRIEANN R | 1 | 49.5% | +32.5% |
| KAHN, RACHEL | 1 | 27.9% | +17.4% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18687884 | Graphite-Copper Composite Material, Heat Sink Member Using the Same, and Method for Producing Graphite-Copper Composite Material | CARDA, DANIELLE MARIE | — |
| 17781808 | POLYAMIDE RESIN COMPOSITION | KAHN, RACHEL | — |
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 6 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17912291 | POLYAMIDE RESIN COMPOSITION | JOHNSTON, BRIEANN R | 28d overdue |
| 18688849 | POLYAMIDE RESIN COMPOSITION | HALL, DEVE V. | — |
| 18688066 | POLYAMIDE RESIN COMPOSITION | WU, ANDREA | — |
| 18687884 | Graphite-Copper Composite Material, Heat Sink Member Using the Same, and Method for Producing Graphite-Copper Composite Material | CARDA, DANIELLE MARIE | — |
| 18263916 | NEGATIVE ELECTRODE ACTIVE MATERIAL COMPOSITION, AND ALL-SOLID-STATE SECONDARY BATTERY INCLUDING SAME | OTERO, KENNETH MAX | — |
| 17781808 | POLYAMIDE RESIN COMPOSITION | KAHN, RACHEL | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1766 | 2 |
| 1725 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18688849 | POLYAMIDE RESIN COMPOSITION | HALL, DEVE V. | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 04, 2024 |
| 18688066 | POLYAMIDE RESIN COMPOSITION | WU, ANDREA | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 29, 2024 |
| 18687884 | Graphite-Copper Composite Material, Heat Sink Member Using the Same, and Method for Producing Graphite-Copper Composite Material | CARDA, DANIELLE MARIE | — | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 29, 2024 |
| 18263916 | NEGATIVE ELECTRODE ACTIVE MATERIAL COMPOSITION, AND ALL-SOLID-STATE SECONDARY BATTERY INCLUDING SAME | OTERO, KENNETH MAX | 1725 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Aug 02, 2023 |
| 17912291 | POLYAMIDE RESIN COMPOSITION | JOHNSTON, BRIEANN R | 1766 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 28d overdue | Pending | Sep 16, 2022 |
| 17781808 | POLYAMIDE RESIN COMPOSITION | KAHN, RACHEL | 1766 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 02, 2022 |
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