Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
1 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 2 patents granted in the last 365 days
Cosmo Oil Lubricants Co. Ltd. has 1 pending office action in the Chemistry & Materials technology area. This single action is assigned to a distinct examiner and a distinct art unit. The company's current prosecution profile is limited to this one active matter, suggesting a very specific point of contact within the patent office. For a company in the lubricants sector, this 1 pending office action represents the entirety of its current effort to secure new patent rights in the chemistry field, making the outcome of this single matter highly significant.
The busiest examiner for this portfolio is LEE, RIP A, who is managing 1 pending office action. This examiner is responsible for the total volume of the company's active prosecution. Because the prosecution is confined to a distinct art unit, the company's current legal efforts are focused on a single technical examination group. The reliance on a single distinct examiner for the pending office action means that the company's immediate patent prospects are tied to the specific examination patterns and technical interpretations of this individual within that art unit.
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 |
|---|---|
| §102 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| LEE, RIP A | 1 | 83.5% | -4.0% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18284363 | Curable Composition, and Cured Product | LEE, RIP A | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1762 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18284363 | Curable Composition, and Cured Product | LEE, RIP A | 1762 | §102 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Sep 27, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialCosmo Oil Lubricants Co. Ltd. has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Rip A Lee has the most, with 1 of Cosmo Oil Lubricants Co. Ltd.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Chemistry & Materials (USPTO Tech Center 1700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
