Technology areas: Chemistry & Materials • Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
4 pending office actions • 4 art units • 4 examiners • 0 of 4 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 2 patents granted in the last 365 days
Howa Co. Ltd. currently manages 4 pending office actions within the Chemistry & Materials technology area. This portfolio is distributed across 4 distinct examiners and 4 distinct art units, indicating a prosecution landscape where each matter is handled by a different specialist. Such a one-to-one ratio between pending actions and art units suggests that the company technical innovations span several niche sub-sectors within the chemistry field.
The busiest examiner for this portfolio is CATALANO, JACKSON RICHARD, who is responsible for 1 pending office action. Because the 4 pending actions are spread among 4 distinct examiners, no single official holds a majority of the workload. This distribution requires practitioners to adapt to the specific preferences of multiple examiners simultaneously. The lack of overlap between art units and examiners means that successful strategies in one application may not directly translate to others. The presence of 4 pending office actions reflects an active investment in securing diverse chemical intellectual property.
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 |
|---|---|
| §103 only | 1 (25%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 3 (75%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| CATALANO, JACKSON RICHARD | 1 | 100.0% | +0.0% |
| GUGLIOTTA, NICOLE T | 1 | 52.1% | +2.0% |
| MALEKZADEH, SEYED MASOUD | 1 | 67.2% | +31.9% |
| SWIER, WAYNE K. | 1 | 67.9% | +19.2% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18021088 | VEHICLE INTERIOR OR EXTERIOR MEMBER AND METHODS OF MANUFACTURING THEREOF | SWIER, WAYNE K. | 15d overdue |
| 18797641 | SERVICE HOLE COVER MEMBER FOR DOOR OF MOTOR VEHICLE | CATALANO, JACKSON RICHARD | — |
| 17781426 | BOARD-TYPE SUNSHADE AND SUNSHADE APPARATUS FOR MOTOR VEHICLES PROVIDED WITH BOARD-TYPE SUNSHADE | GUGLIOTTA, NICOLE T | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18021088 | VEHICLE INTERIOR OR EXTERIOR MEMBER AND METHODS OF MANUFACTURING THEREOF | SWIER, WAYNE K. | 15d overdue |
| 18588344 | VEHICLE INTERIOR AND EXTERIOR MEMBER, METHOD OF MANUFACTURING VEHICLE INTERIOR AND EXTERIOR MEMBER, AND PRESS MOLD USED FOR MANUFACTURING VEHICLE INTERIOR AND EXTERIOR MEMBER | MALEKZADEH, SEYED MASOUD | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3612 | 1 |
| 1781 | 1 |
| 1754 | 1 |
| 1748 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18797641 | SERVICE HOLE COVER MEMBER FOR DOOR OF MOTOR VEHICLE | CATALANO, JACKSON RICHARD | 3612 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 08, 2024 |
| 17781426 | BOARD-TYPE SUNSHADE AND SUNSHADE APPARATUS FOR MOTOR VEHICLES PROVIDED WITH BOARD-TYPE SUNSHADE | GUGLIOTTA, NICOLE T | 1781 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 16, 2024 |
| 18588344 | VEHICLE INTERIOR AND EXTERIOR MEMBER, METHOD OF MANUFACTURING VEHICLE INTERIOR AND EXTERIOR MEMBER, AND PRESS MOLD USED FOR MANUFACTURING VEHICLE INTERIOR AND EXTERIOR MEMBER | MALEKZADEH, SEYED MASOUD | 1754 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 27, 2024 |
| 18021088 | VEHICLE INTERIOR OR EXTERIOR MEMBER AND METHODS OF MANUFACTURING THEREOF | SWIER, WAYNE K. | 1748 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | 15d overdue | Pending | Feb 13, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialHowa Co. Ltd. has 4 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 4 art units and 4 examiners.
Jackson Richard Catalano has the most, with 1 of Howa Co. Ltd.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Chemistry & Materials (USPTO Tech Center 1700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
