Technology area: Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
3 pending office actions • 2 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Daiwa Kasei Industry Co. Ltd. has 4 pending office actions in Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems. The matters involve 4 distinct examiners across 3 distinct art units, showing separate examiner assignments with some art-unit repetition.
MCNICHOLS, ERET C is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending office action. Counsel should use the recurring art-unit context for issue tracking while keeping claim amendments tied to each application’s record.
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 |
|---|---|
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 3 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| MCNICHOLS, ERET C | 1 | 75.0% | -15.6% |
| SULLIVAN, MATTHEW J | 1 | 62.9% | +22.8% |
| SKROUPA, JOSHUA A | 1 | 80.3% | +15.2% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19015284 | CLIPS | MCNICHOLS, ERET C | — |
| 18977498 | CLIP | SULLIVAN, MATTHEW J | — |
| 18366262 | FIXING STRUCTURE, FIXING MEMBER, AND ASSEMBLY METHOD | SKROUPA, JOSHUA A | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18977498 | CLIP | SULLIVAN, MATTHEW J | — |
| 18366262 | FIXING STRUCTURE, FIXING MEMBER, AND ASSEMBLY METHOD | SKROUPA, JOSHUA A | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3677 | 2 |
| 3678 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19015284 | CLIPS | MCNICHOLS, ERET C | 3677 | §102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 09, 2025 |
| 18977498 | CLIP | SULLIVAN, MATTHEW J | 3677 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Dec 11, 2024 |
| 18366262 | FIXING STRUCTURE, FIXING MEMBER, AND ASSEMBLY METHOD | SKROUPA, JOSHUA A | 3678 | §102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 07, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialDaiwa Kasei Industry Co. Ltd. has 3 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 2 art units and 3 examiners.
Eret C Mcnichols has the most, with 1 of Daiwa Kasei Industry Co. Ltd.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems (USPTO Tech Center 3600), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
