Technology areas: Chemistry & Materials • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
3 pending office actions • 3 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 7 patents granted in the last 365 days
Kabushiki Kaisha Pilot Corporation, also trading as Pilot Corporation, has 3 pending office actions in Chemistry & Materials. The matters are distributed among 3 examiners and 3 art units, with each examination assignment occupying a separate art-unit channel.
WALCZAK, DAVID J is the busiest examiner with 1 pending matter. The absence of examiner concentration favors matter-specific preparation and limits the value of relying on a single examiner history for portfolio-wide strategy.
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 (67%) |
| §102 only | 1 (33%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| WALCZAK, DAVID J | 1 | 74.1% | +17.7% |
| MCDONOUGH, JAMES E | 1 | 71.2% | +10.9% |
| HIGGINS, GERARD T | 1 | 63.3% | +39.4% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18284517 | ATTACHMENT STRUCTURE IN WRITING INSTRUMENT, WRITING INSTRUMENT, AND SOFT MEMBER | WALCZAK, DAVID J | — |
| 18287622 | OIL-BASED BALLPOINT PEN | MCDONOUGH, JAMES E | — |
| 18028272 | REVERSIBLY THERMOCHROMIC COMPOSITION AND REVERSIBLY THERMOCHROMIC MICROCAPSULE PIGMENT ENCAPSULATING THE SAME | HIGGINS, GERARD T | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3754 | 1 |
| 1734 | 1 |
| 1785 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18284517 | ATTACHMENT STRUCTURE IN WRITING INSTRUMENT, WRITING INSTRUMENT, AND SOFT MEMBER | WALCZAK, DAVID J | 3754 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 07, 2025 |
| 18287622 | OIL-BASED BALLPOINT PEN | MCDONOUGH, JAMES E | 1734 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Oct 19, 2023 |
| 18028272 | REVERSIBLY THERMOCHROMIC COMPOSITION AND REVERSIBLY THERMOCHROMIC MICROCAPSULE PIGMENT ENCAPSULATING THE SAME | HIGGINS, GERARD T | 1785 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Mar 24, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialKabushiki Kaisha Pilot Corporation (Also Trading AS Pilot Corporation) has 3 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 3 art units and 3 examiners.
David J Walczak has the most, with 1 of Kabushiki Kaisha Pilot Corporation (Also Trading AS Pilot Corporation)'s pending office actions.
Mostly Chemistry & Materials (USPTO Tech Center 1700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
