Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
1 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Hinode Holdings Co. Ltd. has 1 pending office action in the Chemistry & Materials technology area. This action is assigned to 1 distinct examiner, MORILLO, JANELL COMBS, who is the busiest examiner with 1 pending action. The prosecution is located within 1 distinct art unit, reflecting a single, focused point of activity for the company's current filings.
Because there is only 1 pending office action, the success of this application is the primary focus of the current prosecution effort. MORILLO, JANELL COMBS will be the sole examiner responsible for reviewing the merits of this case. The 1 distinct art unit provides the procedural framework for this examination. This concentrated structure suggests that the company's current patent strategy is focused on a specific niche or a single family of applications.
Practitioners should focus on the specific requirements of the 1 pending office action to move the application toward allowance. With only 1 examiner and 1 art unit, the prosecution path is direct and uncomplicated by competing examiner viewpoints. This 1-to-1-to-1 relationship between action, examiner, and unit defines the current portfolio status and simplifies the communication chain for the applicant.
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 |
|---|---|
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| MORILLO, JANELL COMBS | 1 | 58.2% | +26.1% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18564667 | ALUMINUM ALLOY FOR CASTING AND ALUMINUM CASTING THAT IS PROVIDED BY USING AND CASTING IT | MORILLO, JANELL COMBS | 22d |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18564667 | ALUMINUM ALLOY FOR CASTING AND ALUMINUM CASTING THAT IS PROVIDED BY USING AND CASTING IT | MORILLO, JANELL COMBS | 22d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1733 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18564667 | ALUMINUM ALLOY FOR CASTING AND ALUMINUM CASTING THAT IS PROVIDED BY USING AND CASTING IT | MORILLO, JANELL COMBS | 1733 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | 22d | Pending | Nov 28, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialHinode Holdings Co. Ltd. has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Janell Combs Morillo has the most, with 1 of Hinode Holdings Co. Ltd.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Chemistry & Materials (USPTO Tech Center 1700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
