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 • 3 patents granted in the last 365 days
Arisawa MFG. Co., Ltd. currently manages 2 pending office actions within the Chemistry & Materials technology area. These matters are distributed across 2 distinct art units, which suggests the portfolio covers diverse technical sub-sectors within the broader materials science field. The involvement of 2 distinct examiners indicates that the prosecution process is not centralized under a single individual, potentially requiring different advocacy approaches for each application. This distribution across 2 distinct art units may also imply that the company is navigating different sets of examination guidelines within the patent office.
The examiner HESTER, HOLLEY GRACE is currently the busiest examiner for this portfolio, holding 1 pending office action. While this individual manages 1 pending office action, the total volume of 2 pending office actions remains low, suggesting a manageable prosecution pipeline. Because there are 2 distinct examiners for only 2 pending office actions, the company experiences a high ratio of examiners to active cases. This relationship between the 2 pending office actions and the 2 distinct examiners means that no single examiner's habits will dominate the overall prosecution results for the current Chemistry & Materials filings.
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%) |
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| HESTER, HOLLEY GRACE | 1 | 67.2% | +41.1% |
| KING, BRIAN M | 1 | 70.3% | +23.7% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18266023 | INSULATED CONTAINER, AND MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPH AND MAGNETOSPINOGRAPH INCLUDING SAME | KING, BRIAN M | 74d overdue |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18266023 | INSULATED CONTAINER, AND MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPH AND MAGNETOSPINOGRAPH INCLUDING SAME | KING, BRIAN M | 74d overdue |
| 18692451 | THERMOSETTING RESIN COMPOSITION, COVERLAY FILM, ADHESIVE SHEET, AND FLEXIBLE PRINTED CIRCUIT BOARD | HESTER, HOLLEY GRACE | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1766 | 1 |
| 3763 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18692451 | THERMOSETTING RESIN COMPOSITION, COVERLAY FILM, ADHESIVE SHEET, AND FLEXIBLE PRINTED CIRCUIT BOARD | HESTER, HOLLEY GRACE | 1766 | §103Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 15, 2024 |
| 18266023 | INSULATED CONTAINER, AND MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPH AND MAGNETOSPINOGRAPH INCLUDING SAME | KING, BRIAN M | 3763 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | 74d overdue | Pending | Jun 08, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialArisawa MFG. Co., Ltd. has 2 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 2 art units and 2 examiners.
Holley Grace Hester has the most, with 1 of Arisawa MFG. Co., Ltd.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Chemistry & Materials (USPTO Tech Center 1700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
