Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
1 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
JFE Mineral & Alloy Company Ltd. has a patent portfolio in the Chemistry & Materials technology area. The portfolio currently shows 1 pending office action. This prosecution involves 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit, indicating a focused examination process for the company's mineral and alloy filings. This centralized prosecution means that the immediate progress of the company's intellectual property depends on the review of the examiner.
The busiest examiner for the portfolio is PIRO, NICHOLAS ANTHONY. This examiner is responsible for 1 busiest examiner pending action, which matches the total count of 1 pending office action for the company. With only the distinct art unit involved, the company's current patent strategy is dependent on the outcomes within that group. Practitioners should note that this lack of diversification across examiners means the specific examination style of the individual will determine the progress of the active application at the USPTO.
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 (100%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| PIRO, NICHOLAS ANTHONY | 1 | 47.5% | +41.3% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18691885 | HEXAGONAL BORON NITRIDE POWDER FOR FILLER | PIRO, NICHOLAS ANTHONY | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1738 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18691885 | HEXAGONAL BORON NITRIDE POWDER FOR FILLER | PIRO, NICHOLAS ANTHONY | 1738 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Mar 14, 2024 |
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Start Free TrialJFE Mineral & Alloy Company Ltd. has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Nicholas Anthony Piro has the most, with 1 of JFE Mineral & Alloy Company Ltd.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Chemistry & Materials (USPTO Tech Center 1700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
