Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
1 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Kewpie Egg Corporation currently has 1 pending office action within the Chemistry & Materials technology area. This action is assigned to 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit, indicating that the company's active prosecution is currently limited to a single technical matter. This focused activity suggests a targeted approach to securing intellectual property within the chemistry and materials sector, where the company is prioritizing a specific innovation for review.
The busiest examiner for the corporation is MERCHLINSKY, JOSEPH CULLEN, who is managing the 1 pending office action. This single action represents the total pending workload for the company. Because there is only 1 distinct art unit involved, the prosecution is centralized, meaning the company interacts with only one specific administrative division of the patent office for its current chemistry-related filings. This concentration provides a streamlined path for the corporation to address the technical requirements and procedural standards of the assigned examiner and their administrative group.
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 |
|---|---|
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| MERCHLINSKY, JOSEPH CULLEN | 1 | 5.9% | -6.3% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18855628 | BASE MATERIAL FOR COAGULATED EGG-LIKE GELATINIZED PRODUCT, METHOD FOR PRODUCING COAGULATED EGG-LIKE GELATINIZED PRODUCT, COAGULATED EGG-LIKE GELATINIZED PRODUCT, AND FOOD PRODUCT | MERCHLINSKY, JOSEPH CULLEN | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1791 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18855628 | BASE MATERIAL FOR COAGULATED EGG-LIKE GELATINIZED PRODUCT, METHOD FOR PRODUCING COAGULATED EGG-LIKE GELATINIZED PRODUCT, COAGULATED EGG-LIKE GELATINIZED PRODUCT, AND FOOD PRODUCT | MERCHLINSKY, JOSEPH CULLEN | 1791 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 09, 2024 |
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Start Free TrialKewpie Egg Corporation has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Joseph Cullen Merchlinsky has the most, with 1 of Kewpie Egg Corporation's pending office actions.
Mostly Chemistry & Materials (USPTO Tech Center 1700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
