Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
1 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Futamura Kagaku Kabushiki Kaisha maintains a patent portfolio in the Chemistry & Materials technology area. The portfolio currently features 1 pending office action. This single action represents the entirety of the company's active prosecution requirements, indicating a focused period of examination for its chemical and material innovations.
The administrative distribution of these patent matters is extremely focused. All prosecution activity is handled by 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit. This concentration suggests that the company's innovations are being processed through a very specific and narrow channel within the patent office, which may allow for a more specialized dialogue between the applicant and the examiner.
CALANDRA, ANTHONY J is the busiest examiner for this portfolio. This examiner is responsible for 1 pending office action. Because the entire active portfolio is under the supervision of CALANDRA, ANTHONY J, the prosecution strategy is entirely dependent on the examination patterns and requirements of this examiner within the chemistry and materials sector.
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) | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| CALANDRA, ANTHONY J | 1 | 62.9% | +18.6% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18681436 | TYPE II UNMODIFIED CELLULOSE FINE FIBER AND MANUFACTURING METHODS FOR TYPE II UNMODIFIED CELLULOSE FINE FIBER AND MOLDED BODY OF THE SAME | CALANDRA, ANTHONY J | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18681436 | TYPE II UNMODIFIED CELLULOSE FINE FIBER AND MANUFACTURING METHODS FOR TYPE II UNMODIFIED CELLULOSE FINE FIBER AND MOLDED BODY OF THE SAME | CALANDRA, ANTHONY J | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1748 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18681436 | TYPE II UNMODIFIED CELLULOSE FINE FIBER AND MANUFACTURING METHODS FOR TYPE II UNMODIFIED CELLULOSE FINE FIBER AND MOLDED BODY OF THE SAME | CALANDRA, ANTHONY J | 1748 | §102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 05, 2024 |
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Start Free TrialFutamura Kagaku Kabushiki Kaisha has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Anthony J Calandra has the most, with 1 of Futamura Kagaku Kabushiki Kaisha's pending office actions.
Mostly Chemistry & Materials (USPTO Tech Center 1700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
