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
Yutaka Mfg Co. Ltd. has 1 pending office action in the Chemistry & Materials technology area. This action is assigned to 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit. The portfolio shows a concentrated prosecution footprint with no distribution across different USPTO departments. This focus means that the company's current patent prospects in this area rely on the evaluation of the assigned examiner within the specified art unit.
KASZTEJNA, MATTHEW JOHN is the busiest examiner, holding the 1 pending office action currently active. This examiner represents the entirety of the company's pending workload. The alignment of 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit for the 1 pending action reflects a focused examination path. Because of this current workload, the prosecution strategy lacks the diversification that comes with multiple examiners or art units. The company's immediate success in the Chemistry & Materials sector is tied to this interaction at the USPTO.
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 |
|---|---|
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| KASZTEJNA, MATTHEW JOHN | 1 | 64.5% | +13.1% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18436360 | APPARATUS FOR PRODUCING NOODLE SKIN PIECE | KASZTEJNA, MATTHEW JOHN | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18436360 | APPARATUS FOR PRODUCING NOODLE SKIN PIECE | KASZTEJNA, MATTHEW JOHN | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1742 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18436360 | APPARATUS FOR PRODUCING NOODLE SKIN PIECE | KASZTEJNA, MATTHEW JOHN | 1742 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 08, 2024 |
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