Technology areas: Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals • Chemistry & Materials
11 pending office actions • 10 art units • 11 examiners • 0 of 11 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 25 patents granted in the last 365 days
Japan Science and Technology Agency has 10 pending office actions in Chemistry & Materials. The matters are assigned to 10 distinct examiners across 9 distinct art units. Examiner assignments are therefore fully dispersed, while one art unit handles more than one matter. The profile favors application-specific prosecution supported by limited unit-level review.
NGUYEN, HAIDUNG D is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending matter. No examiner concentration is identified. Counsel should track the individual technical disclosures and chemistry-related claim issues closely, while using the shared art-unit exposure to watch for procedural or substantive patterns that may affect more than one application.
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 |
|---|---|
| §101 + other | 1 (9%) |
| §103 only | 1 (9%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 2 (18%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 7 (64%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| NGUYEN, HAIDUNG D | 1 | 64.8% | +28.1% |
| JACKSON, MONIQUE R | 1 | 34.8% | +44.3% |
| GRAVES, TIMOTHY P | 1 | 81.1% | +15.2% |
| MCCLAIN, STARFARI TESHAWN | 1 | 91.2% | -12.5% |
| IQBAL, SYED TAHA | 1 | 80.0% | +21.3% |
| CHAU, LISA N | 1 | 25.4% | +17.2% |
| WITHERSPOON, SIKARL A | 1 | 86.3% | -20.1% |
| SULLIVAN, STEPHANIE LAUREN | 1 | 57.1% | +38.1% |
| KUCHARCZK, JED A | 1 | 80.4% | +16.3% |
| KANG, TAE-SIK | 1 | 58.5% | +27.7% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18548109 | SN-38 DERIVATIVE, NANO-PARTICLES CONTAINING SAID DERIVATIVE, MEDICINE, AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING SAID NANO-PARTICLES | KUCHARCZK, JED A | 2d overdue |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 8 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19256222 | Heteroelement-Containing Graphene | NGUYEN, HAIDUNG D | — |
| 19118174 | NANOSHEET-LIKE PARTICLES OF POLYTHIOPHENE-BASED COMPOUND AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING SAME | JACKSON, MONIQUE R | — |
| 18863049 | MEASUREMENT DEVICE AND MEASUREMENT METHOD | GRAVES, TIMOTHY P | — |
| 18751503 | ELECTROCHEMICAL REDUCTION OF CARBON DIOXIDE | MCCLAIN, STARFARI TESHAWN | — |
| 18707975 | CATALYST COMPOSITION, METHOD FOR PROMOTING CATALYTIC ACTIVITY, METHOD FOR PRODUCING CATALYST COMPOSITION, AND AMMONIA SYNTHESIS METHOD USING CATALYST COMPOSITION | IQBAL, SYED TAHA | — |
| 18597912 | ORDERED ALLOY FERROMAGNETIC NANOWIRE STRUCTURE AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING SAME | CHAU, LISA N | — |
| 18682274 | Method for Producing Compound, Compound, and Metal Catalyst | WITHERSPOON, SIKARL A | — |
| 16346188 | LIVER ORGANOID COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS OF MAKING AND USING SAME | CONNORS, ALEXANDRA F | — |
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 8 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18548109 | SN-38 DERIVATIVE, NANO-PARTICLES CONTAINING SAID DERIVATIVE, MEDICINE, AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING SAID NANO-PARTICLES | KUCHARCZK, JED A | 2d overdue |
| 19256222 | Heteroelement-Containing Graphene | NGUYEN, HAIDUNG D | — |
| 19118174 | NANOSHEET-LIKE PARTICLES OF POLYTHIOPHENE-BASED COMPOUND AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING SAME | JACKSON, MONIQUE R | — |
| 18863049 | MEASUREMENT DEVICE AND MEASUREMENT METHOD | GRAVES, TIMOTHY P | — |
| 18707975 | CATALYST COMPOSITION, METHOD FOR PROMOTING CATALYTIC ACTIVITY, METHOD FOR PRODUCING CATALYST COMPOSITION, AND AMMONIA SYNTHESIS METHOD USING CATALYST COMPOSITION | IQBAL, SYED TAHA | — |
| 18597912 | ORDERED ALLOY FERROMAGNETIC NANOWIRE STRUCTURE AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING SAME | CHAU, LISA N | — |
| 18292496 | PHARMACEUTICAL COMPOSITION FOR TREATMENT OF PANCREATIC CANCER AND BILE DUCT CANCER | SULLIVAN, STEPHANIE LAUREN | — |
| 17922802 | CORE-SHELL PARTICLE, COMPOSITE, LIGHT-RECEIVING MEMBER FOR PHOTOELECTRIC CONVERSION ELEMENT, AND PHOTOELECTRIC CONVERSION ELEMENT | KANG, TAE-SIK | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1736 | 2 |
| 1761 | 1 |
| 1788 | 1 |
| 2855 | 1 |
| 1785 | 1 |
| 1692 | 1 |
| 1635 | 1 |
| 1623 | 1 |
| 1728 | 1 |
| 1634 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19256222 | Heteroelement-Containing Graphene | NGUYEN, HAIDUNG D | 1761 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 01, 2025 |
| 19118174 | NANOSHEET-LIKE PARTICLES OF POLYTHIOPHENE-BASED COMPOUND AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING SAME | JACKSON, MONIQUE R | 1788 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 03, 2025 |
| 18863049 | MEASUREMENT DEVICE AND MEASUREMENT METHOD | GRAVES, TIMOTHY P | 2855 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 05, 2024 |
| 18751503 | ELECTROCHEMICAL REDUCTION OF CARBON DIOXIDE | MCCLAIN, STARFARI TESHAWN | 1736 | §102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 24, 2024 |
| 18707975 | CATALYST COMPOSITION, METHOD FOR PROMOTING CATALYTIC ACTIVITY, METHOD FOR PRODUCING CATALYST COMPOSITION, AND AMMONIA SYNTHESIS METHOD USING CATALYST COMPOSITION | IQBAL, SYED TAHA | 1736 | §102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 07, 2024 |
| 18597912 | ORDERED ALLOY FERROMAGNETIC NANOWIRE STRUCTURE AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING SAME | CHAU, LISA N | 1785 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 07, 2024 |
| 18682274 | Method for Producing Compound, Compound, and Metal Catalyst | WITHERSPOON, SIKARL A | 1692 | §102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 08, 2024 |
| 18292496 | PHARMACEUTICAL COMPOSITION FOR TREATMENT OF PANCREATIC CANCER AND BILE DUCT CANCER | SULLIVAN, STEPHANIE LAUREN | 1635 | §102§103§112DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 26, 2024 |
| 18548109 | SN-38 DERIVATIVE, NANO-PARTICLES CONTAINING SAID DERIVATIVE, MEDICINE, AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING SAID NANO-PARTICLES | KUCHARCZK, JED A | 1623 | §103DP | Final Rejection | 2d overdue | Pending | Aug 28, 2023 |
| 17922802 | CORE-SHELL PARTICLE, COMPOSITE, LIGHT-RECEIVING MEMBER FOR PHOTOELECTRIC CONVERSION ELEMENT, AND PHOTOELECTRIC CONVERSION ELEMENT | KANG, TAE-SIK | 1728 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Nov 02, 2022 |
| 16346188 | LIVER ORGANOID COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS OF MAKING AND USING SAME | CONNORS, ALEXANDRA F | 1634 | §101§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 30, 2019 |
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Start Free TrialJapan Science and Technology Agency has 11 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 10 art units and 11 examiners.
Haidung D Nguyen has the most, with 1 of Japan Science and Technology Agency's pending office actions.
Mostly Chemistry & Materials (USPTO Tech Center 1700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
