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
Yokota Trading Co. Ltd. is currently managing 1 pending office action within the Chemistry & Materials technology area. This single active matter is assigned to 1 distinct examiner, ensuring a focused prosecution environment. The administrative scope is similarly narrow, with the activity occurring in 1 distinct art unit. This concentration suggests that the company's current USPTO engagement is limited to a specific technical niche within the chemical sector.
SARANTAKOS, KAYLA ROSE is the busiest examiner for the company, currently overseeing 1 pending office action. Since there is only 1 pending office action in the entire portfolio, this examiner handles the totality of the company's active cases. The presence of only 1 distinct art unit and 1 distinct examiner indicates that the company is not currently managing multiple simultaneous patent applications. For a practitioner, the outcome of the portfolio's current standing rests on the interaction with SARANTAKOS, KAYLA ROSE.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| SARANTAKOS, KAYLA ROSE | 1 | 37.1% | +49.7% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18524535 | Method and Device for Inactivating New Coronavirus | SARANTAKOS, KAYLA ROSE | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1799 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18524535 | Method and Device for Inactivating New Coronavirus | SARANTAKOS, KAYLA ROSE | 1799 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Nov 30, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialYokota Trading Co. Ltd. has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Kayla Rose Sarantakos has the most, with 1 of Yokota Trading Co. Ltd.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Chemistry & Materials (USPTO Tech Center 1700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.