Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
1 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Chugai Ro Co. Ltd. currently has 1 pending office action within the Chemistry & Materials technology area. This action is being handled within a distinct art unit, reflecting a focused prosecution presence. Because there is a distinct examiner involved, the success of the pending patent efforts relies on the interactions with this individual.
PATEL, VISHAL I is the busiest examiner for the company, currently responsible for the 1 pending office action. Since PATEL, VISHAL I is the examiner assigned to the portfolio, there is no internal baseline for comparing examiner behavior within the company's own data. The prosecution strategy is streamlined, as the pending office action in the Chemistry & Materials field does not require coordinating across multiple art units or examiners. This simplicity allows for a direct focus on the requirements of the distinct art unit involved. Practitioners should prioritize a clear response to the findings to ensure timely progress.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| PATEL, VISHAL I | 1 | 78.5% | +9.8% |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1746 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18854519 | COATING APPARATUS AND COATING METHOD | PATEL, VISHAL I | 1746 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 04, 2024 |
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Start Free TrialChugai Ro Co. Ltd. has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Vishal I Patel has the most, with 1 of Chugai Ro Co. Ltd.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Chemistry & Materials (USPTO Tech Center 1700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
