Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
1 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Canon Machinery Inc. holds a company patent portfolio in the Chemistry & Materials technology area. Currently, there is 1 pending office action within the portfolio. This level of activity indicates a targeted approach to prosecution, with the company's current efforts focused on a specific material or chemical process.
The examination is managed by 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit. This concentration suggests that the pending matter is highly specialized and does not require review by multiple technical groups. For the company, this results in a streamlined prosecution process where the strategy is tailored to the requirements of 1 distinct art unit.
MUSSER, BARBARA J is the busiest examiner for this portfolio, with 1 busiest examiner pending office action. Since the total number of pending office actions is 1, this examiner is responsible for the entirety of the company's active prosecution. The focus on 1 distinct art unit and 1 distinct examiner ensures that the company's current patent prosecution is centralized.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| MUSSER, BARBARA J | 1 | 71.1% | +26.6% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18057817 | BONDING APPARATUS AND BONDING METHOD | MUSSER, BARBARA J | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1746 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18057817 | BONDING APPARATUS AND BONDING METHOD | MUSSER, BARBARA J | 1746 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Nov 22, 2022 |
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Start Free TrialCanon Machinery Inc. has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Barbara J Musser has the most, with 1 of Canon Machinery Inc.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Chemistry & Materials (USPTO Tech Center 1700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
