Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
1 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Kurashiki Boseki Kabushiki Kaisha has 1 pending office action in the Chemistry & Materials technology area. This matter is assigned to a distinct examiner, HANDVILLE, BRIAN, who is the busiest examiner for the portfolio with 1 pending office action. All current prosecution activity is located within a distinct art unit. This profile shows a highly concentrated prosecution environment for the company's current chemistry filings.
For a practitioner, the focus is entirely on the 1 pending office action and the specific requirements of HANDVILLE, BRIAN. With only a distinct examiner and a distinct art unit, there is no diversification of the workload. The success of the company's current active filing in the Chemistry & Materials sector depends on navigating the specific feedback from the single assigned examiner. This streamlined structure suggests a very specific technical focus for the company's current patent efforts, with no other active matters to provide a broader context for examiner behavior. The 1 pending office action represents the total active workload for the company.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| HANDVILLE, BRIAN | 1 | 51.3% | +28.4% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18849822 | RIB-REINFORCED MOLDING AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING SAME | HANDVILLE, BRIAN | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18849822 | RIB-REINFORCED MOLDING AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING SAME | HANDVILLE, BRIAN | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1783 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18849822 | RIB-REINFORCED MOLDING AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING SAME | HANDVILLE, BRIAN | 1783 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Sep 23, 2024 |
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Start Free TrialKurashiki Boseki Kabushiki Kaisha has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Brian Handville has the most, with 1 of Kurashiki Boseki Kabushiki Kaisha's pending office actions.
Mostly Chemistry & Materials (USPTO Tech Center 1700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
