Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals • Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 3 patents granted in the last 365 days
UP CHEMICAL CO., LTD. has 2 pending office actions focused in the Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals technology area. These actions are spread across 2 distinct examiners and 2 distinct art units, showing that each pending matter is assigned to a different person and art unit. This distribution suggests that the company's current patent applications are facing varied examination environments within the biotechnology sector, requiring a strategy that accounts for different examiner styles across 2 distinct art units.
PAGANO, ALEXANDER R is identified as the busiest examiner for the portfolio, currently managing 1 pending office action. With 2 distinct examiners each handling a portion of the 2 pending office actions, the workload is evenly split. This structure requires the company to navigate the specific preferences of multiple examiners across different art units simultaneously. The involvement of 2 distinct art units indicates that the company's biotechnology innovations are diverse enough to be classified into separate regulatory groups, each with its own technical 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 | 1 (50%) |
| §112 only | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| PAGANO, ALEXANDER R | 1 | 78.7% | +11.3% |
| NEWTON, VALERIE N | 1 | 84.2% | +5.9% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18577885 | SILICON PRECURSOR COMPOUND, COMPOSITION FOR FORMING SILICON-CONTAINING FILM COMPRISING SAME, AND METHOD FOR FORMING FILM USING COMPOSITION FOR FORMING SILICON-CONTAINING FILM | NEWTON, VALERIE N | — |
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 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18861891 | FILM DEPOSITING COMPOSITION INCLUDING GROUP 4 METAL ELEMENT-CONTAINING PRECURSOR COMPOUND AND METHOD FOR FORMING FILM USING SAME | PAGANO, ALEXANDER R | 38d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1692 | 1 |
| 2897 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18861891 | FILM DEPOSITING COMPOSITION INCLUDING GROUP 4 METAL ELEMENT-CONTAINING PRECURSOR COMPOUND AND METHOD FOR FORMING FILM USING SAME | PAGANO, ALEXANDER R | 1692 | §112 | Final Rejection | 38d overdue | Pending | Oct 31, 2024 |
| 18577885 | SILICON PRECURSOR COMPOUND, COMPOSITION FOR FORMING SILICON-CONTAINING FILM COMPRISING SAME, AND METHOD FOR FORMING FILM USING COMPOSITION FOR FORMING SILICON-CONTAINING FILM | NEWTON, VALERIE N | 2897 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 09, 2024 |
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