Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
1 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 3 patents granted in the last 365 days
Hitachi Channel Solutions Corp. currently manages 1 pending office action within the Chemistry & Materials technology area. This matter is assigned to 1 distinct examiner, which focuses the company's current legal interactions on a single official at the patent office. The prosecution is taking place within 1 distinct art unit, suggesting that the company's chemical technology is classified within a specific technical division. This focused administrative structure allows for a direct and singular approach to managing the company's current intellectual property filings.
The busiest examiner for the portfolio is XU, XIAOYUN, who is responsible for 1 busiest examiner pending office action. Since the total number of pending office actions is also 1, this examiner is the sole person currently evaluating the company's active cases. For a practitioner, this means that the success of the current prosecution phase is entirely dependent on the decisions of this one individual. The alignment of 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit indicates a highly specialized technical focus for the company's current applications. The outcome of this 1 pending office action will be the key measure of the company's immediate progress in the Chemistry & 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 |
|---|---|
| §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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| XU, XIAOYUN | 1 | 59.9% | +31.6% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18685323 | DRUG INSPECTION APPARATUS AND DRUG INSPECTION METHOD | XU, XIAOYUN | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1797 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18685323 | DRUG INSPECTION APPARATUS AND DRUG INSPECTION METHOD | XU, XIAOYUN | 1797 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Feb 21, 2024 |
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Start Free TrialHitachi Channel Solutions Corp. has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Xiaoyun Xu has the most, with 1 of Hitachi Channel Solutions Corp.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Chemistry & Materials (USPTO Tech Center 1700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
