Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 6 patents granted in the last 365 days
Hiroshima University has 2 pending office actions in the Chemistry & Materials technology area. These actions are split between 2 distinct art units and 2 distinct examiners. This distribution means that each pending matter is being handled independently by a different examiner in a different technical group. The one-to-one ratio between pending actions and examiners indicates that the university's current workload is evenly split between two officials.
The busiest examiner is CHEN, BRET P, who is responsible for 1 pending office action. With 2 pending actions and 2 distinct examiners, there is no concentration of workload under a single individual. The university's current prosecution efforts in chemistry and materials are thus divided equally across the 2 identified art units. Practitioners must manage two separate tracks of communication, as each examiner will apply their own interpretation to the university's chemical innovations. This decentralized structure suggests that the university's filings span at least two distinct technical niches within the chemistry and materials field.
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 (50%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (50%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| CHEN, BRET P | 1 | 84.5% | +16.3% |
| HE, QIANPING | 1 | 66.2% | +15.8% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18879400 | METHOD FOR PRODUCING SILICON FILM AND SILICON FILM | CHEN, BRET P | — |
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 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18879400 | METHOD FOR PRODUCING SILICON FILM AND SILICON FILM | CHEN, BRET P | — |
| 18698139 | GAS SEPARATION MEMBRANE | HE, QIANPING | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1718 | 1 |
| 1776 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18879400 | METHOD FOR PRODUCING SILICON FILM AND SILICON FILM | CHEN, BRET P | 1718 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Dec 27, 2024 |
| 18698139 | GAS SEPARATION MEMBRANE | HE, QIANPING | 1776 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Apr 03, 2024 |
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Start Free TrialHiroshima University has 2 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 2 art units and 2 examiners.
Bret P Chen has the most, with 1 of Hiroshima University's pending office actions.
Mostly Chemistry & Materials (USPTO Tech Center 1700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
