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
Furuya Metal Co. Ltd. has 1 pending office action in the Chemistry & Materials technology area. This case is assigned to 1 distinct examiner, DAM, DUSTIN Q, who is the busiest examiner with 1 pending office action. This means the company's current patent prosecution is entirely dependent on the review of a single examiner within the patent office. For the practitioner, this suggests that the prosecution strategy should be highly tailored to the specific preferences and history of this one examiner.
The prosecution is contained within 1 distinct art unit. This reflects a highly focused patenting effort where the company's current interaction with the patent office is limited to a single examiner and a single technical group. This lack of distribution across different art units or examiners suggests a highly specialized invention that falls squarely within a single regulatory niche, requiring a focused and consistent legal approach during prosecution. Success in this matter will depend on a deep understanding of the assigned examiner's past rulings and technical standards.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| DAM, DUSTIN Q | 1 | 23.0% | +25.2% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18701490 | THERMOCOUPLE STRUCTURE | DAM, DUSTIN Q | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18701490 | THERMOCOUPLE STRUCTURE | DAM, DUSTIN Q | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1721 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18701490 | THERMOCOUPLE STRUCTURE | DAM, DUSTIN Q | 1721 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Apr 15, 2024 |
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Start Free TrialFuruya Metal Co. Ltd. has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Dustin Q Dam has the most, with 1 of Furuya Metal Co. Ltd.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Chemistry & Materials (USPTO Tech Center 1700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
