Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
1 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
UNICOH Speciality Chemicals Co., Ltd. currently manages 1 pending office action within the Chemistry & Materials technology area. This single active matter is concentrated under 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit, indicating a highly focused prosecution footprint. The lack of distribution across multiple examiners suggests that the company's current interactions with the patent office are centralized within a specific technical domain. This concentration allows for a very specific legal strategy but limits the diversity of examiner perspectives currently applied to the portfolio. Practitioners can expect a singular communication process due to the lack of multiple departmental contacts.
JEFFREY D WASHVILLE is identified as the busiest examiner for this portfolio, currently handling 1 pending office action. Because this examiner is responsible for the only active matter, the entirety of the company's immediate prosecution workload rests with a single individual. This concentration means that the outcomes for the portfolio are presently dependent on the specific examination style and pace of this one official. Practitioners should monitor the specific tendencies of this examiner to anticipate potential hurdles in the Chemistry & Materials space. The focus on a single examiner in a single art unit means that the company's immediate patent success relies on navigating one specific set of examination criteria.
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 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| WASHVILLE, JEFFREY D | 1 | 80.0% | -4.5% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18268270 | COMPOSITION FOR SURFACE TREATMENT OF STEEL SHEET AND STEEL SHEET USING THE SAME | WASHVILLE, JEFFREY D | 23d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1766 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18268270 | COMPOSITION FOR SURFACE TREATMENT OF STEEL SHEET AND STEEL SHEET USING THE SAME | WASHVILLE, JEFFREY D | 1766 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 23d | Pending | Jun 19, 2023 |
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