Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
8 pending office actions • 4 art units • 8 examiners • 0 of 8 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 9 patents granted in the last 365 days
Kansai Paint Co., Ltd. has 9 pending office actions in the Chemistry & Materials technology area. These matters are located within 5 distinct art units. The prosecution involves 9 distinct examiners. This means that each pending office action is assigned to a different examiner. There is no overlap between examiners for any of the company's active cases. This situation requires a strategy for every filing, as the company is dealing with distinct examiners who each bring their own perspective to the examination process.
Nathan T Leong is the busiest examiner with 1 pending office action. This 1 pending office action is the same amount handled by every other examiner for the company. The 5 distinct art units represent the different technical areas where the company has active filings. Because the work is spread across 5 distinct art units, the company must be familiar with the specific practices of multiple chemical examination sections. The absence of any examiner with more than a single case highlights the distributed nature of the company's current prosecution efforts.
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 | 1 (12%) |
| §102 only | 1 (12%) |
| §112 only | 1 (12%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 1 (12%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 4 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| LEONG, NATHAN T | 1 | 71.4% | +24.1% |
| SCHATZ, CHRISTOPHER T | 1 | 62.5% | +27.0% |
| HON, SOW FUN | 1 | 57.7% | +64.8% |
| COHEN, STEFANIE J | 1 | 75.4% | +2.5% |
| NGUYEN, KEVIN NMN | 1 | 82.5% | +8.7% |
| TADAYYON ESLAMI, TABASSOM | 1 | 49.5% | +26.5% |
| HIGGINS, GERARD T | 1 | 63.3% | +39.4% |
| DU, SURBHI M | 1 | 66.9% | +29.1% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 4 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18013436 | COATING COMPOSITION WITH HIGH SOLIDS CONTENT, AND METHOD FOR FORMING MULTILAYER COATING FILM | DU, SURBHI M | 33d |
| 18695626 | PHOTOLUMINESCENT COATING MATERIAL COMPOSITION AND MULTILAYER COATING FILM FORMING METHOD | COHEN, STEFANIE J | — |
| 18692980 | CONDUCTIVE PIGMENT PASTE, MIXTURE PASTE, AND ELECTRODE FOR LITHIUM ION BATTERY | NGUYEN, KEVIN NMN | — |
| 18561503 | METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING CONDUCTIVE PIGMENT PASTE | TADAYYON ESLAMI, TABASSOM | — |
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 6 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18013436 | COATING COMPOSITION WITH HIGH SOLIDS CONTENT, AND METHOD FOR FORMING MULTILAYER COATING FILM | DU, SURBHI M | 33d |
| 19167931 | METHODS FOR PRODUCING CARBON NANOTUBE DISPERSION PASTE, MIXTURE PASTE, AND ELECTRODE LAYER FOR LITHIUM ION SECONDARY BATTERY | LEONG, NATHAN T | — |
| 18997496 | COATING COMPOSITION AND IN-MOLD COATING METHOD | SCHATZ, CHRISTOPHER T | — |
| 18828234 | EFFECT COATING COMPOSITION AND METHOD FOR FORMING MULTILAYER COATING FILM | HON, SOW FUN | — |
| 18561503 | METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING CONDUCTIVE PIGMENT PASTE | TADAYYON ESLAMI, TABASSOM | — |
| 18275735 | MULTILAYER COATING FILM-FORMING METHOD | HIGGINS, GERARD T | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1718 | 2 |
| 1782 | 1 |
| 1785 | 1 |
| 1765 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19167931 | METHODS FOR PRODUCING CARBON NANOTUBE DISPERSION PASTE, MIXTURE PASTE, AND ELECTRODE LAYER FOR LITHIUM ION SECONDARY BATTERY | LEONG, NATHAN T | 1718 | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 23, 2025 |
| 18997496 | COATING COMPOSITION AND IN-MOLD COATING METHOD | SCHATZ, CHRISTOPHER T | — | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 21, 2025 |
| 18828234 | EFFECT COATING COMPOSITION AND METHOD FOR FORMING MULTILAYER COATING FILM | HON, SOW FUN | 1782 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Sep 09, 2024 |
| 18695626 | PHOTOLUMINESCENT COATING MATERIAL COMPOSITION AND MULTILAYER COATING FILM FORMING METHOD | COHEN, STEFANIE J | — | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 26, 2024 |
| 18692980 | CONDUCTIVE PIGMENT PASTE, MIXTURE PASTE, AND ELECTRODE FOR LITHIUM ION BATTERY | NGUYEN, KEVIN NMN | — | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 18, 2024 |
| 18561503 | METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING CONDUCTIVE PIGMENT PASTE | TADAYYON ESLAMI, TABASSOM | 1718 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 16, 2023 |
| 18275735 | MULTILAYER COATING FILM-FORMING METHOD | HIGGINS, GERARD T | 1785 | §103§112DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 03, 2023 |
| 18013436 | COATING COMPOSITION WITH HIGH SOLIDS CONTENT, AND METHOD FOR FORMING MULTILAYER COATING FILM | DU, SURBHI M | 1765 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | 33d | Pending | Dec 28, 2022 |
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