Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
1 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
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.
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 |
|---|---|
| Double-patenting + other | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| LI, JUN | 1 | 54.5% | +57.0% |
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.
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1732 | 1 |
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Start Free TrialMaruchi Co. Ltd. has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Jun Li has the most, with 1 of Maruchi Co. Ltd.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Chemistry & Materials (USPTO Tech Center 1700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.