Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
7 pending office actions • 6 art units • 7 examiners • 0 of 7 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 5 patents granted in the last 365 days
Furukawa Co. Ltd. manages 7 pending office actions in the Chemistry & Materials technology area. These actions are distributed across 7 distinct examiners and 6 distinct art units, indicating a broad administrative presence at the patent office. This distribution suggests that the company's chemical and material innovations span multiple specialized divisions.
HO, ANDREW YEWHONG is identified as the busiest examiner, currently holding 1 busiest examiner pending action. The fact that 7 pending office actions are spread across 7 distinct examiners suggests that no single individual dominates the company's prosecution landscape. This variety requires a legal strategy that can manage different examiner expectations and art unit norms across the 6 distinct art units involved.
The presence of 7 distinct examiners provides the company with a wide range of feedback on its technical disclosures. Because the workload is spread across 6 distinct art units, the legal team must monitor multiple sets of administrative trends within the Chemistry & Materials sector. The 1 busiest examiner pending action represents a small fraction of the company's total active workload, indicating a diversified prosecution strategy.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 1 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.
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 | 4 (57%) |
| §102 only | 2 (29%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (14%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| HO, ANDREW YEWHONG | 1 | — | — |
| MOUDOU, EILEEN QI-YUN | 1 | 50.0% | +0.0% |
| YOUNG, NATASHA E | 1 | 83.0% | +9.1% |
| WILLS, MONIQUE M | 1 | 85.8% | -30.4% |
| KUMAR, KALYANAVENKA K | 1 | 72.9% | +18.3% |
| HIGGINS, KATHERINE NICOLE | 1 | 62.5% | +24.3% |
| ZEMUI, NATHANAEL T | 1 | 55.6% | +23.7% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18561896 | HYDROGEN SULFIDE PRODUCING DEVICE AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING HYDROGEN SULFIDE | YOUNG, NATASHA E | — |
| 18254187 | SULFIDE-BASED INORGANIC SOLID ELECTROLYTE MATERIAL, SOLID ELECTROLYTE, SOLID ELECTROLYTE MEMBRANE, AND LITHIUM ION BATTERY | WILLS, MONIQUE M | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18561885 | LITHIUM SULFIDE PRODUCING DEVICE AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING LITHIUM SULFIDE | MOUDOU, EILEEN QI-YUN | — |
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 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17766043 | METHOD OF MANUFACTURING INORGANIC MATERIAL | HIGGINS, KATHERINE NICOLE | 12d |
| 18031725 | METHOD OF SEPARATING INORGANIC MATERIAL FROM CRUSHING BALLS | KUMAR, KALYANAVENKA K | — |
| 17766120 | METHOD OF MANUFACTURING SULFIDE-BASED INORGANIC SOLID ELECTROLYTE MATERIAL | ZEMUI, NATHANAEL T | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1738 | 2 |
| 1744 | 1 |
| 1723 | 1 |
| 3653 | 1 |
| 1728 | 1 |
| 1727 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18294375 | SULFIDE-BASED INORGANIC SOLID ELECTROLYTE MATERIAL, SOLID ELECTROLYTE MEMBRANE, ALL-SOLID-STATE LITHIUM ION BATTERY, DEVICE FOR MANUFACTURING SULFIDE-BASED INORGANIC SOLID ELECTROLYTE MATERIAL, AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING SULFIDE-BASED INORGANIC SOLID ELECTROLYTE MATERIAL | HO, ANDREW YEWHONG | 1744 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 01, 2024 |
| 18561885 | LITHIUM SULFIDE PRODUCING DEVICE AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING LITHIUM SULFIDE | MOUDOU, EILEEN QI-YUN | 1738 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 17, 2023 |
| 18561896 | HYDROGEN SULFIDE PRODUCING DEVICE AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING HYDROGEN SULFIDE | YOUNG, NATASHA E | 1738 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 17, 2023 |
| 18254187 | SULFIDE-BASED INORGANIC SOLID ELECTROLYTE MATERIAL, SOLID ELECTROLYTE, SOLID ELECTROLYTE MEMBRANE, AND LITHIUM ION BATTERY | WILLS, MONIQUE M | 1723 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 24, 2023 |
| 18031725 | METHOD OF SEPARATING INORGANIC MATERIAL FROM CRUSHING BALLS | KUMAR, KALYANAVENKA K | 3653 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 13, 2023 |
| 17766043 | METHOD OF MANUFACTURING INORGANIC MATERIAL | HIGGINS, KATHERINE NICOLE | 1728 | §103 | Final Rejection | 12d | Pending | Apr 01, 2022 |
| 17766120 | METHOD OF MANUFACTURING SULFIDE-BASED INORGANIC SOLID ELECTROLYTE MATERIAL | ZEMUI, NATHANAEL T | 1727 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 01, 2022 |
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Start Free TrialFurukawa Co. Ltd. has 7 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 6 art units and 7 examiners.
Andrew Yewhong Ho has the most, with 1 of Furukawa Co. Ltd.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Chemistry & Materials (USPTO Tech Center 1700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
