Technology areas: Chemistry & Materials • Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics
7 pending office actions • 6 art units • 6 examiners • 0 of 7 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 9 patents granted in the last 365 days
BenQ Materials Corporation has 7 pending office actions in Chemistry & Materials. The matters involve 6 distinct examiners and 6 distinct art units, creating a broad but not fully uniform examination profile. Counsel should coordinate portfolio-level positions on material composition and processing, while allowing each application’s art-unit and examiner record to control the response details.
IMANI, ELIZABETH MARY COLE is the busiest examiner, with 2 pending matters. That examiner handles part of the docket, while the remaining matters require separate prosecution approaches. Monitoring repeated claim limitations and prior-art themes may improve consistency, but counsel should avoid assuming that an argument accepted in one art unit will carry across the other assignments.
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 |
|---|---|
| §101 + other | 1 (14%) |
| §103 only | 3 (43%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 3 (43%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| IMANI, ELIZABETH MARY COLE | 2 | 33.5% | +24.9% |
| NIMOX, RAYMOND LONDALE | 1 | 70.2% | +10.4% |
| SHAH, SAMIR | 1 | 36.7% | +35.1% |
| WONG, EDNA | 1 | 58.4% | -19.7% |
| AVINA, RACHEL MARIE | 1 | — | — |
| ROLDAN RAMOS, CHRISTIAN | 1 | 69.6% | +15.4% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 4 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18823641 | WATER-BASED HOT-MELT ADHESIVE AND NONWOVEN COATED WITH THE WATER-BASED HOT-MELT ADHESIVE | IMANI, ELIZABETH MARY COLE | — |
| 18813048 | MACHINING TOOL LIFE PREDICTION METHOD | NIMOX, RAYMOND LONDALE | — |
| 18607382 | ANTI-GLARE FILM AND POLARIZER WITH THE SAME | SHAH, SAMIR | — |
| 18518593 | ELECTROLYSIS SYSTEM | WONG, EDNA | — |
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 5 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18827876 | WATER-BASED HOT-MELT ADHESIVE AND WATER-BASED HOT MELT ADHESIVE COATED NON-WOVEN FABRIC | IMANI, ELIZABETH MARY COLE | — |
| 18823641 | WATER-BASED HOT-MELT ADHESIVE AND NONWOVEN COATED WITH THE WATER-BASED HOT-MELT ADHESIVE | IMANI, ELIZABETH MARY COLE | — |
| 18813048 | MACHINING TOOL LIFE PREDICTION METHOD | NIMOX, RAYMOND LONDALE | — |
| 18607382 | ANTI-GLARE FILM AND POLARIZER WITH THE SAME | SHAH, SAMIR | — |
| 18480622 | LOW THERMAL SHRINKAGE SEPARATOR AND A METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING THEREOF | ROLDAN RAMOS, CHRISTIAN | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1789 | 2 |
| 2857 | 1 |
| 2872 | 1 |
| 1795 | 1 |
| 4100 | 1 |
| 1723 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18827876 | WATER-BASED HOT-MELT ADHESIVE AND WATER-BASED HOT MELT ADHESIVE COATED NON-WOVEN FABRIC | IMANI, ELIZABETH MARY COLE | 1789 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Sep 09, 2024 |
| 18823641 | WATER-BASED HOT-MELT ADHESIVE AND NONWOVEN COATED WITH THE WATER-BASED HOT-MELT ADHESIVE | IMANI, ELIZABETH MARY COLE | 1789 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Sep 03, 2024 |
| 18813048 | MACHINING TOOL LIFE PREDICTION METHOD | NIMOX, RAYMOND LONDALE | 2857 | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 23, 2024 |
| 18607382 | ANTI-GLARE FILM AND POLARIZER WITH THE SAME | SHAH, SAMIR | 2872 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Mar 15, 2024 |
| 18518593 | ELECTROLYSIS SYSTEM | WONG, EDNA | 1795 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 23, 2023 |
| 18487097 | HIGH TENSILE STRENGTH SEPARATOR | AVINA, RACHEL MARIE | 4100 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Oct 15, 2023 |
| 18480622 | LOW THERMAL SHRINKAGE SEPARATOR AND A METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING THEREOF | ROLDAN RAMOS, CHRISTIAN | 1723 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 04, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialBenQ Materials Corporation has 7 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 6 art units and 6 examiners.
Elizabeth Mary Cole Imani has the most, with 2 of BenQ Materials Corporation's pending office actions.
Mostly Chemistry & Materials (USPTO Tech Center 1700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
