Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Chemistry & Materials • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 2 patents granted in the last 365 days
Yg-1 Co. Ltd. has 2 pending office actions in the Chemistry & Materials technology area. These actions are distributed across 2 distinct examiners and 2 distinct art units. The busiest examiner is TUROCY, DAVID P, who has 1 pending office action. This means each of the 2 pending office actions is being reviewed by a different person in a separate technical group.
The 2 distinct examiners and 2 distinct art units indicate that each of the 2 pending office actions is being evaluated by a separate specialized division. This spread ensures that the chemistry and materials filings are being reviewed by different technical experts. With 2 pending office actions across 2 distinct art units, the company must address the unique requirements of two different technical groups while working with 2 distinct examiners to advance its applications.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| TUROCY, DAVID P | 1 | 46.9% | +35.5% |
| AFZALI, SARANG | 1 | 73.4% | +44.6% |
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 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19099476 | METHOD FOR PREPARING A SUBSTRATE COATED WITH AN INTERMEDIATE LAYER AND A DIAMOND LAYER | TUROCY, DAVID P | — |
| 18479026 | CUTTING INSERT AND CUTTING TOOL INCLUDING THE SAME | AFZALI, SARANG | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1718 | 1 |
| 3726 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19099476 | METHOD FOR PREPARING A SUBSTRATE COATED WITH AN INTERMEDIATE LAYER AND A DIAMOND LAYER | TUROCY, DAVID P | 1718 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jan 29, 2025 |
| 18479026 | CUTTING INSERT AND CUTTING TOOL INCLUDING THE SAME | AFZALI, SARANG | 3726 | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 30, 2023 |
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