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
Fuji Filter Manufacturing Co. Ltd. currently has 1 pending office action within the Chemistry & Materials technology area. This action is being handled by 1 distinct examiner and is located within a distinct art unit. This concentration of the portfolio means the company has a single point of interaction with the patent office for its active matters. The prosecution is localized to these specific entities, which simplifies the administrative tracking of the company's current patent interests.
Sharon Pregler is the busiest examiner for the portfolio, managing the pending office action. Since there is only the mentioned pending action in total, this examiner is responsible for the company's entire active office action workload. The alignment of the action with the examiner and the art unit defines the current prosecution environment. Practitioners can focus their strategy on the specific preferences and historical patterns of this examiner and the associated art unit to resolve the outstanding matter.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| PREGLER, SHARON | 1 | 78.0% | +21.1% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18688337 | HOLLOW CYLINDRICAL FILTER, AND MANUFACTURING METHOD | PREGLER, SHARON | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1776 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18688337 | HOLLOW CYLINDRICAL FILTER, AND MANUFACTURING METHOD | PREGLER, SHARON | 1776 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 29, 2024 |
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Start Free TrialFuji Filter Manufacturing Co. Ltd. has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Sharon Pregler has the most, with 1 of Fuji Filter Manufacturing Co. Ltd.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Chemistry & Materials (USPTO Tech Center 1700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
