Technology areas: Chemistry & Materials • Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
4 pending office actions • 2 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 4 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 2 patents granted in the last 365 days
Inoac Corporation has 4 pending office actions in Chemistry & Materials. The matters involve 3 distinct examiners and 2 distinct art units, showing multiple examiner assignments within a compact art-unit structure.
COONEY, JOHN M is the busiest examiner, with 2 pending matters. This examiner therefore handles more than one part of the docket, making consistency review particularly useful for shared chemistry and materials issues. The remaining actions require separate examiner-specific preparation.
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 | 2 (50%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| COONEY, JOHN M | 2 | 62.9% | +21.2% |
| PAPE, JOSEPH | 1 | 88.3% | +3.7% |
| BLANKENSHIP, GREGORY A | 1 | 85.2% | +3.8% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18871264 | VIBRATION DAMPING MEMBER, ROOF LINER, VEHICLE STRUCTURE, CEILING STRUCTURE, AND VIBRATION DAMPING STRUCTURE | PAPE, JOSEPH | — |
| 18863079 | DAMPING MATERIAL FOR FLOOR AND VIBRATION CONTROL METHOD | BLANKENSHIP, GREGORY A | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18876074 | SEAT PAD | COONEY, JOHN M | — |
| 18267290 | POLYURETHANE FOAM AND SEAT PAD | COONEY, JOHN M | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18876074 | SEAT PAD | COONEY, JOHN M | — |
| 18267290 | POLYURETHANE FOAM AND SEAT PAD | COONEY, JOHN M | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1765 | 2 |
| 3612 | 2 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18876074 | SEAT PAD | COONEY, JOHN M | 1765 | §102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 17, 2024 |
| 18871264 | VIBRATION DAMPING MEMBER, ROOF LINER, VEHICLE STRUCTURE, CEILING STRUCTURE, AND VIBRATION DAMPING STRUCTURE | PAPE, JOSEPH | 3612 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 03, 2024 |
| 18863079 | DAMPING MATERIAL FOR FLOOR AND VIBRATION CONTROL METHOD | BLANKENSHIP, GREGORY A | 3612 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 05, 2024 |
| 18267290 | POLYURETHANE FOAM AND SEAT PAD | COONEY, JOHN M | 1765 | §102§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jun 14, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialInoac Corporation has 4 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 2 art units and 3 examiners.
John M Cooney has the most, with 2 of Inoac Corporation's pending office actions.
Mostly Chemistry & Materials (USPTO Tech Center 1700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
