Technology areas: Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals • Chemistry & Materials
3 pending office actions • 3 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 5 patents granted in the last 365 days
Honshu Chemical Industry Co. Ltd. has 4 pending office actions in Chemistry & Materials. The docket involves 3 distinct examiners and 3 distinct art units, so at least one examination assignment covers more than one pending matter. This structure supports coordinated review of recurring claim language while retaining attention to assignment-specific issues.
WARD, PAUL V is the busiest examiner, with 2 pending matters. Those matters may offer the clearest opportunity to identify repeated objections or preferred amendment formats, while the other assignments require separate analysis.
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 (33%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (67%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FROST, ANTHONY J | 1 | 52.6% | +20.2% |
| WASHVILLE, JEFFREY D | 1 | 80.1% | -4.6% |
| WARD, PAUL V | 1 | 83.2% | -12.2% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18580119 | CURABLE RESIN COMPOSITION, VARNISH, PREPREG, AND CURED PRODUCT | WASHVILLE, JEFFREY D | — |
| 18262136 | NOVEL METHOD FOR PRODUCING BENZOXAZINE COMPOUND | WARD, PAUL V | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18293134 | NOVEL BENZOXAZINE COMPOUND, RESIN RAW MATERIAL COMPOSITION CONTAINING THE SAME, CURABLE RESIN COMPOSITION, AND CURED PRODUCT THEREOF | FROST, ANTHONY J | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1782 | 1 |
| 1766 | 1 |
| 1622 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18293134 | NOVEL BENZOXAZINE COMPOUND, RESIN RAW MATERIAL COMPOSITION CONTAINING THE SAME, CURABLE RESIN COMPOSITION, AND CURED PRODUCT THEREOF | FROST, ANTHONY J | 1782 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 29, 2024 |
| 18580119 | CURABLE RESIN COMPOSITION, VARNISH, PREPREG, AND CURED PRODUCT | WASHVILLE, JEFFREY D | 1766 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 17, 2024 |
| 18262136 | NOVEL METHOD FOR PRODUCING BENZOXAZINE COMPOUND | WARD, PAUL V | 1622 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 19, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialHonshu Chemical Industry Co. Ltd. has 3 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 3 art units and 3 examiners.
Anthony J Frost has the most, with 1 of Honshu Chemical Industry Co. Ltd.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Chemistry & Materials (USPTO Tech Center 1700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
