Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
9 pending office actions • 8 art units • 9 examiners • 0 of 9 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 10 patents granted in the last 365 days
Kureha Corporation has 10 pending office actions in Chemistry & Materials. The matters involve 9 distinct examiners and 8 distinct art units, showing a portfolio distributed across several examination groups but with some repeated examiner and art-unit assignments. The difference between pending matters and examiner assignments indicates that examiner concentration is present, though limited.
MOUDOU, EILEEN QI-YUN is the busiest examiner, with 2 pending matters. That recurring assignment may support a focused review of examiner-specific treatment, while the 8 art units require broader technical coordination across the portfolio.
Counsel should combine examiner-level tracking with art-unit grouping. Reusable claim and disclosure positions may be useful within related technical assignments, but the distribution argues against applying one prosecution template to every matter.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 3 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.
Every pending office action with a known statutory deadline, placed on a days-until-due axis. Dots left of Today are overdue; the further right, the more runway. Cases that share a deadline window stack vertically. 3 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.
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 |
|---|---|
| §103 only | 4 (44%) |
| §102 only | 2 (22%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 3 (33%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| MOORE, MARGARET G | 1 | 68.1% | +15.6% |
| GOLDEN, CHINESSA T | 1 | 58.0% | +4.5% |
| PEPITONE, MICHAEL F | 1 | 74.4% | +22.0% |
| COPENHEAVER, BLAINE R | 1 | 86.4% | +18.9% |
| GORDON, BRYAN P | 1 | 77.2% | +14.0% |
| BUTCHER, ROBERT T | 1 | 71.3% | +16.7% |
| MOUDOU, EILEEN QI-YUN | 1 | 50.0% | +0.0% |
| MARTIN, MATTHEW T | 1 | 44.7% | +38.7% |
| SASTRI, SATYA B | 1 | 62.6% | +29.4% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18546202 | BINDER SOLUTION, SLURRY, SOLID ELECTROLYTE LAYER, ELECTRODE, AND ALL-SOLID BATTERY | MARTIN, MATTHEW T | 41d |
| 19112504 | POLYCARBOSILANE FOR SILICON CARBIDE FIBERS, METHOD FOR PRODUCING SAME, AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING SILICON CARBIDE FIBERS | MOORE, MARGARET G | — |
| 18556601 | PIEZOELECTRIC LAMINATED FILM AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING PIEZOELECTRIC LAMINATED FILM | COPENHEAVER, BLAINE R | — |
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 7 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18254490 | VINYLIDENE FLUORIDE POLYMER COMPOSITION AND METHOD OF PRODUCING SAME, RESIN COMPOSITION, ELECTRODE MIXTURE, AND ELECTRODE CONTAINING THESE, AND METHOD OF PRODUCING SAME | SASTRI, SATYA B | 39d |
| 18546202 | BINDER SOLUTION, SLURRY, SOLID ELECTROLYTE LAYER, ELECTRODE, AND ALL-SOLID BATTERY | MARTIN, MATTHEW T | 41d |
| 19112504 | POLYCARBOSILANE FOR SILICON CARBIDE FIBERS, METHOD FOR PRODUCING SAME, AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING SILICON CARBIDE FIBERS | MOORE, MARGARET G | — |
| 18697184 | VINYLIDENE FLUORIDE POLYMER SOLUTION | PEPITONE, MICHAEL F | — |
| 18556601 | PIEZOELECTRIC LAMINATED FILM AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING PIEZOELECTRIC LAMINATED FILM | COPENHEAVER, BLAINE R | — |
| 18554736 | TRANSPARENT CONDUCTIVE PIEZOELECTRIC LAMINATED FILM | GORDON, BRYAN P | — |
| 18552360 | GLYCOLIC ACID COPOLYMER COMPOSITION AND SOLIDIFICATION/EXTRUSION-MOLDED ARTICLE | BUTCHER, ROBERT T | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1788 | 1 |
| 1767 | 1 |
| 1781 | 1 |
| 2837 | 1 |
| 1764 | 1 |
| 1738 | 1 |
| 1728 | 1 |
| 1762 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19112504 | POLYCARBOSILANE FOR SILICON CARBIDE FIBERS, METHOD FOR PRODUCING SAME, AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING SILICON CARBIDE FIBERS | MOORE, MARGARET G | — | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 17, 2025 |
| 18868590 | MOLDED BODY, DOWNHOLE TOOL MEMBER, AND DOWNHOLE TOOL | GOLDEN, CHINESSA T | 1788 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 22, 2024 |
| 18697184 | VINYLIDENE FLUORIDE POLYMER SOLUTION | PEPITONE, MICHAEL F | 1767 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 29, 2024 |
| 18556601 | PIEZOELECTRIC LAMINATED FILM AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING PIEZOELECTRIC LAMINATED FILM | COPENHEAVER, BLAINE R | 1781 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 20, 2023 |
| 18554736 | TRANSPARENT CONDUCTIVE PIEZOELECTRIC LAMINATED FILM | GORDON, BRYAN P | 2837 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 10, 2023 |
| 18552360 | GLYCOLIC ACID COPOLYMER COMPOSITION AND SOLIDIFICATION/EXTRUSION-MOLDED ARTICLE | BUTCHER, ROBERT T | 1764 | §103Other | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Sep 25, 2023 |
| 18551332 | METHOD FOR PRODUCING CARBON QUANTUM DOTS | MOUDOU, EILEEN QI-YUN | 1738 | §103 | Final Rejection | 9d | Pending | Sep 19, 2023 |
| 18546202 | BINDER SOLUTION, SLURRY, SOLID ELECTROLYTE LAYER, ELECTRODE, AND ALL-SOLID BATTERY | MARTIN, MATTHEW T | 1728 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | 41d | Pending | Aug 11, 2023 |
| 18254490 | VINYLIDENE FLUORIDE POLYMER COMPOSITION AND METHOD OF PRODUCING SAME, RESIN COMPOSITION, ELECTRODE MIXTURE, AND ELECTRODE CONTAINING THESE, AND METHOD OF PRODUCING SAME | SASTRI, SATYA B | 1762 | §103 | Final Rejection | 39d | Pending | May 25, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialKureha Corporation has 9 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 8 art units and 9 examiners.
Margaret G Moore has the most, with 1 of Kureha Corporation's pending office actions.
Mostly Chemistry & Materials (USPTO Tech Center 1700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
