Technology areas: Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals • Chemistry & Materials
6 pending office actions • 6 art units • 6 examiners • 0 of 6 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 4 patents granted in the last 365 days
Kirin Holdings Kabushiki Kaisha currently manages 6 pending office actions within the Chemistry & Materials technology area. This volume of 6 pending office actions suggests a range of applications under review. For a practitioner, managing 6 pending office actions requires a coordinated strategy to maintain consistency across the portfolio while addressing the specific technical requirements of the Chemistry & Materials sector.
The prosecution is distributed across 6 distinct examiners and 6 distinct art units. The busiest examiner, CHAWLA, JYOTI, is responsible for 1 pending office action. Because there are 6 distinct examiners involved, the company's success is determined by the individual interpretations of the assigned officials. The presence of 6 distinct art units indicates that the technical subject matter is spread across specialized groups at the patent office, reflecting the technical scope of the filings.
Practitioners should monitor the 6 distinct art units to identify any overlapping prior art or divergent examination trends. With 6 distinct examiners, there is a need for clear communication to ensure that arguments made in an application are consistent across the portfolio. The individual workload of 1 pending office action for CHAWLA, JYOTI represents a component of this multi-faceted prosecution effort. Success across these 6 distinct art units will require a deep understanding of various examination styles.
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 |
|---|---|
| §101 only | 1 (17%) |
| §112 only | 1 (17%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 1 (17%) |
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| CHAWLA, JYOTI | 1 | 52.7% | +30.5% |
| CORDERO, LINA M | 1 | 71.7% | +38.0% |
| WHITELEY, JESSICA | 1 | 88.6% | +7.1% |
| DICKENS, AMELIA NICOLE | 1 | 47.2% | +21.6% |
| HAWKINS, AMANDA SALATA | 1 | 15.4% | +40.9% |
| ESSEX, LAURA ANN | 1 | 60.0% | +35.8% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18686136 | ANTIBACTERIAL PARTICLES CONTAINING CATIONIC POLYMER | WHITELEY, JESSICA | — |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 5 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18281991 | PACKAGED TEA BEVERAGE IN WHICH PAPER ODOR IS SUPPRESSED, AND PRODUCTION METHOD FOR SAME | HAWKINS, AMANDA SALATA | 21d |
| 18719027 | FERMENTATION COMPOSITION AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING SAME | CHAWLA, JYOTI | — |
| 18693404 | SUPPLEMENT COMPOUNDING AND PREPARATION TERMINAL, SUPPLEMENT SUPPLY SYSTEM, AND SUPPLEMENT COMPOUNDING AND PREPARATION METHOD | CORDERO, LINA M | — |
| 18287081 | GROWTH PROMOTER FOR LACTIC ACID COCCI | DICKENS, AMELIA NICOLE | — |
| 17259778 | COMPOSITION FOR USE IN IMPROVING ATTENTION FUNCTION AND JUDGEMENT FUNCTION | ESSEX, LAURA ANN | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18281991 | PACKAGED TEA BEVERAGE IN WHICH PAPER ODOR IS SUPPRESSED, AND PRODUCTION METHOD FOR SAME | HAWKINS, AMANDA SALATA | 21d |
| 18719027 | FERMENTATION COMPOSITION AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING SAME | CHAWLA, JYOTI | — |
| 18693404 | SUPPLEMENT COMPOUNDING AND PREPARATION TERMINAL, SUPPLEMENT SUPPLY SYSTEM, AND SUPPLEMENT COMPOUNDING AND PREPARATION METHOD | CORDERO, LINA M | — |
| 18287081 | GROWTH PROMOTER FOR LACTIC ACID COCCI | DICKENS, AMELIA NICOLE | — |
| 17259778 | COMPOSITION FOR USE IN IMPROVING ATTENTION FUNCTION AND JUDGEMENT FUNCTION | ESSEX, LAURA ANN | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1791 | 1 |
| 2857 | 1 |
| 1759 | 1 |
| 1645 | 1 |
| 1793 | 1 |
| 1675 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18719027 | FERMENTATION COMPOSITION AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING SAME | CHAWLA, JYOTI | 1791 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 12, 2024 |
| 18693404 | SUPPLEMENT COMPOUNDING AND PREPARATION TERMINAL, SUPPLEMENT SUPPLY SYSTEM, AND SUPPLEMENT COMPOUNDING AND PREPARATION METHOD | CORDERO, LINA M | 2857 | §101 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 19, 2024 |
| 18686136 | ANTIBACTERIAL PARTICLES CONTAINING CATIONIC POLYMER | WHITELEY, JESSICA | 1759 | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 23, 2024 |
| 18287081 | GROWTH PROMOTER FOR LACTIC ACID COCCI | DICKENS, AMELIA NICOLE | 1645 | §102§103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Oct 16, 2023 |
| 18281991 | PACKAGED TEA BEVERAGE IN WHICH PAPER ODOR IS SUPPRESSED, AND PRODUCTION METHOD FOR SAME | HAWKINS, AMANDA SALATA | 1793 | §103DP | Final Rejection | 21d | Pending | Sep 14, 2023 |
| 17259778 | COMPOSITION FOR USE IN IMPROVING ATTENTION FUNCTION AND JUDGEMENT FUNCTION | ESSEX, LAURA ANN | 1675 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jan 12, 2021 |
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Start Free TrialKirin Holdings Kabushiki Kaisha has 6 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 6 art units and 6 examiners.
Jyoti Chawla has the most, with 1 of Kirin Holdings Kabushiki Kaisha's pending office actions.
Mostly Chemistry & Materials (USPTO Tech Center 1700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
