Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
1 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Kawamoto Kasei Co. Ltd. oversees a company patent portfolio in the Chemistry & Materials technology area. The portfolio currently has 1 pending office action. This single action is being processed within 1 distinct art unit, showing a concentrated technical focus for the company's active intellectual property. For practitioners, this concentration suggests that the company's legal strategy is deeply embedded in a specific technical niche within the broader chemistry sector.
Prosecution is handled by 1 distinct examiner, THOMPSON, CAMIE S. As the busiest examiner, THOMPSON, CAMIE S is responsible for 1 busiest examiner pending action. Because the total number of pending office actions is 1, THOMPSON, CAMIE S is the sole examiner currently overseeing the company's prosecution efforts. This 1 to 1 ratio between total pending actions and those assigned to the busiest examiner shows that all current legal hurdles for the company are consolidated under a single individual's review. This concentration means that the outcome of the company's current filings is entirely subject to the review and requirements of this 1 examiner within the designated 1 art unit.
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 |
|---|---|
| §102 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| THOMPSON, CAMIE S | 1 | 73.7% | +10.5% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18549265 | WELDING ROD FOR FIBER REINFORCED PLASTIC AND WELDING METHOD USING WELDING ROD FOR FIBER REINFORCED PLASTIC | THOMPSON, CAMIE S | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1786 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18549265 | WELDING ROD FOR FIBER REINFORCED PLASTIC AND WELDING METHOD USING WELDING ROD FOR FIBER REINFORCED PLASTIC | THOMPSON, CAMIE S | 1786 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 06, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialKawamoto Kasei Co. Ltd. has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Camie S Thompson has the most, with 1 of Kawamoto Kasei Co. Ltd.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Chemistry & Materials (USPTO Tech Center 1700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
