Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
1 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Dia Nippon Printing Co. Ltd. has 1 pending office action within the Chemistry & Materials technology area. This prosecution activity is concentrated under 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit. DANIEL P DILLON is the busiest examiner for the portfolio, managing 1 busiest examiner pending action.
The presence of 1 pending office action in the Chemistry & Materials sector indicates a focused point of engagement with the patent office. Because the matter is assigned to 1 distinct examiner in 1 distinct art unit, the outcome for this portion of the portfolio is currently dependent on the review of DANIEL P DILLON. This high level of concentration in the art unit suggests a specific technical application within the chemistry field. Practitioners should evaluate the examiner's past actions and the art unit's specific standards to optimize the response to the 1 pending office action. The pending matter represents the current active prosecution footprint for the company in this technology area. Maintaining a clear dialogue with DANIEL P DILLON is essential for advancing the portfolio.
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 |
|---|---|
| Double-patenting + other | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| DILLON, DANIEL P | 1 | 26.3% | +30.7% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18292040 | DECORATIVE SHEET AND DECORATIVE PLATE | DILLON, DANIEL P | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18292040 | DECORATIVE SHEET AND DECORATIVE PLATE | DILLON, DANIEL P | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1783 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18292040 | DECORATIVE SHEET AND DECORATIVE PLATE | DILLON, DANIEL P | 1783 | §103DP | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jan 25, 2024 |
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Start Free TrialDia Nippon Printing Co. Ltd. has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Daniel P Dillon has the most, with 1 of Dia Nippon Printing Co. Ltd.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Chemistry & Materials (USPTO Tech Center 1700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
