Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
6 pending office actions • 6 art units • 6 examiners • 0 of 6 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 5 patents granted in the last 365 days
JNC Corporation has 6 pending office actions in Chemistry & Materials. The matters are assigned to 6 distinct examiners and 6 distinct art units, creating a fully distributed examiner and examination-group structure. Counsel must manage several separate prosecution relationships while preserving consistent treatment of related chemical and materials terminology.
ALLEN, MICHAEL D is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending matter. No examiner accounts for more than one current action in the reported docket. The practical implication is a matter-specific response workflow supported by centralized oversight, especially for claim amendments that could affect how related materials or properties are described across applications.
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 | 3 (50%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 3 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ALLEN, MICHAEL D | 1 | 31.9% | +48.8% |
| WHITELEY, JESSICA | 1 | 88.6% | +7.1% |
| HESTER, HOLLEY GRACE | 1 | 67.2% | +41.1% |
| CHAMPION, RICHARD DAVID | 1 | 46.2% | +11.1% |
| BUIE-HATCHER, NICOLE M | 1 | 63.9% | +27.0% |
| FREY, KIMBERLY NEWMAN | 1 | 75.8% | +20.4% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18842386 | METHOD FOR DETECTING ANALYTE USING POLYNUCLEOTIDE | ALLEN, MICHAEL D | — |
| 18294145 | CURABLE RESIN COMPOSITION, CURED PRODUCT, ELECTRONIC COMPONENT, OPTICAL COMPONENT, AND COMPOSITE MEMBER | WHITELEY, JESSICA | — |
| 18285263 | SILICONE RESIN COMPOSITION | HESTER, HOLLEY GRACE | — |
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 5 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17965759 | TRANSISTOR TYPE SENSOR | FREY, KIMBERLY NEWMAN | 71d |
| 18842386 | METHOD FOR DETECTING ANALYTE USING POLYNUCLEOTIDE | ALLEN, MICHAEL D | — |
| 18285263 | SILICONE RESIN COMPOSITION | HESTER, HOLLEY GRACE | — |
| 18348374 | PHOTOSENSITIVE COMPOSITION, AND CURED FILM | CHAMPION, RICHARD DAVID | — |
| 17923601 | POLYMERIZABLE COMPOSITION, INK, CURED SUBSTANCE, ELECTRONIC COMPONENT, AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING ELECTRODE MEMBER | BUIE-HATCHER, NICOLE M | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1671 | 1 |
| 1763 | 1 |
| 1766 | 1 |
| 1737 | 1 |
| 1725 | 1 |
| 2817 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18842386 | METHOD FOR DETECTING ANALYTE USING POLYNUCLEOTIDE | ALLEN, MICHAEL D | 1671 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 28, 2024 |
| 18294145 | CURABLE RESIN COMPOSITION, CURED PRODUCT, ELECTRONIC COMPONENT, OPTICAL COMPONENT, AND COMPOSITE MEMBER | WHITELEY, JESSICA | 1763 | §102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 31, 2024 |
| 18285263 | SILICONE RESIN COMPOSITION | HESTER, HOLLEY GRACE | 1766 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Oct 02, 2023 |
| 18348374 | PHOTOSENSITIVE COMPOSITION, AND CURED FILM | CHAMPION, RICHARD DAVID | 1737 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jul 07, 2023 |
| 17923601 | POLYMERIZABLE COMPOSITION, INK, CURED SUBSTANCE, ELECTRONIC COMPONENT, AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING ELECTRODE MEMBER | BUIE-HATCHER, NICOLE M | 1725 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Nov 07, 2022 |
| 17965759 | TRANSISTOR TYPE SENSOR | FREY, KIMBERLY NEWMAN | 2817 | §103 | Final Rejection | 71d | Pending | Oct 13, 2022 |
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Start Free TrialJNC Corporation has 6 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 6 art units and 6 examiners.
Michael D Allen has the most, with 1 of JNC Corporation's pending office actions.
Mostly Chemistry & Materials (USPTO Tech Center 1700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
