Technology areas: Chemistry & Materials • Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Amano Technologies Inc. has 2 pending office actions in Chemistry & Materials. The matters involve 2 examiners and 2 art units, so the portfolio presents separate examination channels rather than a single concentrated assignment.
SINES, BRIAN J is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending matter. Responses may benefit from matter-specific claim and prior-art analysis because the assignments are distributed.
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 |
|---|---|
| §112 only | 1 (50%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| SINES, BRIAN J | 1 | 80.1% | +5.2% |
| LARKIN, DANIEL SEAN | 1 | 82.7% | +7.9% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18321662 | WATER MONITORING SYSTEM USING AN IN-LINE T-SEGMENT ATTACHMENT TO ATTACH TO A PIPE HAVING FLUID TO BE MONITORED | SINES, BRIAN J | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18058572 | WATER MONITORING SYSTEM USING AN OPTIMIZED CIRCULAR FLUID FLOW PATH | LARKIN, DANIEL SEAN | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1796 | 1 |
| 2855 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18321662 | WATER MONITORING SYSTEM USING AN IN-LINE T-SEGMENT ATTACHMENT TO ATTACH TO A PIPE HAVING FLUID TO BE MONITORED | SINES, BRIAN J | 1796 | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 22, 2023 |
| 18058572 | WATER MONITORING SYSTEM USING AN OPTIMIZED CIRCULAR FLUID FLOW PATH | LARKIN, DANIEL SEAN | 2855 | §103§112Other | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Nov 23, 2022 |
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Start Free TrialAmano Technologies Inc. has 2 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 2 art units and 2 examiners.
Brian J Sines has the most, with 1 of Amano Technologies Inc.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Chemistry & Materials (USPTO Tech Center 1700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
