Prosecution Insights
Last updated: October 25, 2026

Maruchi Co. Ltd.

Technology area: Chemistry & Materials

1 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready

Analysis

Maruchi Co. Ltd. currently manages a patent portfolio in the Chemistry & Materials technology area. The company has 1 pending office action, which is being processed by 1 distinct examiner. This indicates a very specific and limited scope of active prosecution at the present time. Furthermore, the involvement of 1 distinct art unit suggests that the company's current legal focus is restricted to a single technical category within the broader chemistry field, rather than spanning multiple specialized groups.

The busiest examiner for this portfolio is LI, JUN, who is managing 1 busiest examiner pending office action. Given that the total number of pending office actions is 1, this examiner is handling the entirety of the company's active workload. This creates a situation where the company's immediate patent strategy is highly dependent on the interactions with a single individual. For practitioners, this profile represents a straightforward prosecution environment with no current evidence of broad or multi-front patent office engagement across different examiners or art units in the Chemistry & Materials sector.

Written from this page's own data; every figure is computed from USPTO records and verified before publication.

Portfolio Summary

1
Total Pending OAs
0
Non-Final OAs
1
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Case Difficulty Mix

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.

0
Hard (0%)
1
Medium (100%)
0
Easy (0%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
Double-patenting + other1 (100%)

Industry Mix

How the docket's pending cases split across USPTO tech-center bands.

1
Life Sciences
100% of docket
0
Information Tech
0% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
0
Semiconductors
0% of docket
0
Mechanical / Eng
0% of docket
0
Business / Other
0% of docket

Time-on-OA Estimate

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.

10 h
Manual time on pending OAs
2 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
4 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
0.1 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
LI, JUN 1 54.5% +57.0%

Interview Candidates (1)

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 #TitleExaminerDue in
18212784 COMPOSITIONS COMPRISING RADIOPAQUE SUBSTANCES WITH IMPROVED BIOABSORBABILITY LI, JUN —

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
1732 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18212784 COMPOSITIONS COMPRISING RADIOPAQUE SUBSTANCES WITH IMPROVED BIOABSORBABILITY LI, JUN 1732 §103DP Final Rejection — Pending Jun 22, 2023

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Frequently Asked Questions

How many pending USPTO office actions does Maruchi Co. Ltd. have?

Maruchi Co. Ltd. has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.

Which USPTO examiner handles the most Maruchi Co. Ltd. applications?

Jun Li has the most, with 1 of Maruchi Co. Ltd.'s pending office actions.

What technology area are Maruchi Co. Ltd.'s patent applications in?

Mostly Chemistry & Materials (USPTO Tech Center 1700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.

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