Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
1 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Kitahama Chemistry Co. Ltd. currently has 1 pending office action under review at the USPTO. This case is assigned to 1 distinct examiner, MILLER, JONATHAN, who is listed as the busiest examiner with 1 pending office action. The small number of pending actions indicates a highly targeted approach to its current patent filings.
The prosecution is handled by 1 distinct examiner, meaning all current legal efforts are focused on a single point of contact within the patent office. With 0 distinct art units, the company's active matter is not spread across different technical divisions. Practitioners must focus their strategy on the specific requirements and feedback provided by MILLER, JONATHAN to advance this single pending application.
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 |
|---|---|
| §112 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| MILLER, JONATHAN | 1 | 79.7% | +18.3% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19104484 | OIL-LIQUEFACTION APPARATUS, AND OlL-LIQUEFACTION METHOD USING SAME | MILLER, JONATHAN | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1772 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19104484 | OIL-LIQUEFACTION APPARATUS, AND OlL-LIQUEFACTION METHOD USING SAME | MILLER, JONATHAN | 1772 | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 18, 2025 |
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Start Free TrialKitahama Chemistry Co. Ltd. has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Jonathan Miller has the most, with 1 of Kitahama Chemistry Co. Ltd.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Chemistry & Materials (USPTO Tech Center 1700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.