Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
3 pending office actions • 2 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Ichikawa Co. Ltd. currently manages 3 pending office actions within the Chemistry & Materials technology area. These matters are assigned to 3 distinct examiners and 2 distinct art units. RITA P ADHLAKHA is the busiest examiner, currently responsible for 1 pending action. The existence of 3 pending actions indicates a focused prosecution effort in the materials sector.
The distribution of 3 actions across 3 distinct examiners means that each case is receiving an independent review. With 2 distinct art units involved, there is some technical concentration in the company's current filings. RITA P ADHLAKHA's 1 pending action is part of this small but active portfolio. The fact that 3 examiners are working within only 2 art units suggests that at least one art unit is handling multiple applications for the company within the Chemistry & Materials sector.
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 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ADHLAKHA, RITA P | 1 | 75.6% | +17.2% |
| MINSKEY, JACOB T | 1 | 69.2% | +33.1% |
| RUSSELL, STEPHEN MATTHEW | 1 | 63.2% | +34.6% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18718842 | BASE FABRIC FOR PAPERMAKING FELT AND PAPERMAKING FELT MADE BY JOINTING SAME | ADHLAKHA, RITA P | — |
| 18938477 | PAPERMAKING FELT BASE MEMBER AND PAPERMAKING FELT | MINSKEY, JACOB 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 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18627471 | BASE FABRIC FOR PAPERMAKING FELT, PAPERMAKING FELT, AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING PAPERMAKING FELT | RUSSELL, STEPHEN MATTHEW | 7d |
| 18718842 | BASE FABRIC FOR PAPERMAKING FELT AND PAPERMAKING FELT MADE BY JOINTING SAME | ADHLAKHA, RITA P | — |
| 18938477 | PAPERMAKING FELT BASE MEMBER AND PAPERMAKING FELT | MINSKEY, JACOB T | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1748 | 2 |
| 1711 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18718842 | BASE FABRIC FOR PAPERMAKING FELT AND PAPERMAKING FELT MADE BY JOINTING SAME | ADHLAKHA, RITA P | 1711 | §102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 03, 2025 |
| 18938477 | PAPERMAKING FELT BASE MEMBER AND PAPERMAKING FELT | MINSKEY, JACOB T | 1748 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 06, 2024 |
| 18627471 | BASE FABRIC FOR PAPERMAKING FELT, PAPERMAKING FELT, AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING PAPERMAKING FELT | RUSSELL, STEPHEN MATTHEW | 1748 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 7d | Pending | Apr 05, 2024 |
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Start Free TrialIchikawa Co. Ltd. has 3 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 2 art units and 3 examiners.
Rita P Adhlakha has the most, with 1 of Ichikawa Co. Ltd.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Chemistry & Materials (USPTO Tech Center 1700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
