Technology areas: Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals • Chemistry & Materials • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
19 pending office actions • 10 art units • 18 examiners • 0 of 19 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 17 patents granted in the last 365 days
MITSUBISHI PENCIL Company, Limited has 20 pending office actions in Chemistry & Materials. The matters are distributed across 18 examiners and 9 art units, showing a broad prosecution footprint with substantial examiner dispersion within the same technology area.
ARIF, NOAH JACOB is the busiest examiner, with 2 pending matters. The limited concentration at the busiest examiner means that most actions require separate examiner analysis. The nine art-unit assignments make classification-specific tracking important, particularly when coordinating technical positions and amendments across related materials technologies.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 4 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. 4 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 | 9 (47%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 3 (16%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 7 (37%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| OLIVER, BRADLEY S | 2 | 61.0% | +14.4% |
| WALCZAK, DAVID J | 1 | 74.1% | +17.7% |
| ARIF, NOAH JACOB | 1 | — | — |
| YOUNG, WILLIAM D | 1 | 54.4% | +14.5% |
| THOMAS, JAISON P | 1 | 82.8% | +17.6% |
| COUGHLIN, DANIEL F | 1 | 38.9% | +18.3% |
| AL-AWADI, DANAH J | 1 | 54.6% | +13.2% |
| BURKE, MATTHEW RYAN | 1 | 0.0% | +0.0% |
| FUBARA, BLESSING M | 1 | 62.2% | +34.1% |
| PALENIK, JEFFREY T | 1 | 53.5% | +27.0% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 8 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18706826 | AQUEOUS LIQUID COSMETIC | SCOTLAND, REBECCA LYNN | 28d |
| 18699472 | WRITING INSTRUMENT AND WRITING PART REPLACEMENT UNIT | WALCZAK, DAVID J | — |
| 19128993 | APPLICATOR | ARIF, NOAH JACOB | — |
| 19107199 | COMPOSITE CONDUCTIVE FILLER PARTICLES, CONDUCTIVE RESIN COMPOSITION, AND CONDUCTIVE RESIN MOLDED ARTICLE | THOMAS, JAISON P | — |
| 18993157 | MARKER COMPOSITION FOR SKIN, AND APPLICATION TOOL FOR SAME | AL-AWADI, DANAH J | — |
| 18871382 | RESIN FOR HAIR COSMETICS, AND HAIR COSMETIC | BURKE, MATTHEW RYAN | — |
| 18865009 | INK STORAGE MEMBER FOR WRITING IMPLEMENTS | OLIVER, BRADLEY S | — |
| 18291354 | AQUEOUS INK COMPOSITION FOR WRITING INSTRUMENTS | HALL, DEVE V. | — |
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 8 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18726214 | WRITING IMPLEMENT REFILL AND METHOD OF ENGRAVING WRITING IMPLEMENT REFILL | OLIVER, BRADLEY S | 27d |
| 18699472 | WRITING INSTRUMENT AND WRITING PART REPLACEMENT UNIT | WALCZAK, DAVID J | — |
| 19114966 | CARBON MATERIAL DISPERSION SOLUTION AND SLURRY COMPOSITION FOR SECONDARY BATTERY NEGATIVE ELECTRODES IN WHICH SAME IS USED | YOUNG, WILLIAM D | — |
| 19107199 | COMPOSITE CONDUCTIVE FILLER PARTICLES, CONDUCTIVE RESIN COMPOSITION, AND CONDUCTIVE RESIN MOLDED ARTICLE | THOMAS, JAISON P | — |
| 19061056 | PIGMENT DISPERSION FOR AQUEOUS COSMETIC COMPOSITIONS, AND AQUEOUS COSMETIC COMPOSITION USING THE SAME | COUGHLIN, DANIEL F | — |
| 18993157 | MARKER COMPOSITION FOR SKIN, AND APPLICATION TOOL FOR SAME | AL-AWADI, DANAH J | — |
| 18865009 | INK STORAGE MEMBER FOR WRITING IMPLEMENTS | OLIVER, BRADLEY S | — |
| 18722637 | AQUEOUS LIQUID COSMETIC MATERIAL | FUBARA, BLESSING M | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3754 | 4 |
| 1615 | 3 |
| 1767 | 3 |
| 1761 | 2 |
| 1619 | 2 |
| 1762 | 1 |
| 1613 | 1 |
| 1763 | 1 |
| 1732 | 1 |
| 1614 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18699472 | WRITING INSTRUMENT AND WRITING PART REPLACEMENT UNIT | WALCZAK, DAVID J | 3754 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 18, 2025 |
| 19128993 | APPLICATOR | ARIF, NOAH JACOB | 3754 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 10, 2025 |
| 19114966 | CARBON MATERIAL DISPERSION SOLUTION AND SLURRY COMPOSITION FOR SECONDARY BATTERY NEGATIVE ELECTRODES IN WHICH SAME IS USED | YOUNG, WILLIAM D | 1761 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 25, 2025 |
| 19107199 | COMPOSITE CONDUCTIVE FILLER PARTICLES, CONDUCTIVE RESIN COMPOSITION, AND CONDUCTIVE RESIN MOLDED ARTICLE | THOMAS, JAISON P | 1762 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 27, 2025 |
| 19061056 | PIGMENT DISPERSION FOR AQUEOUS COSMETIC COMPOSITIONS, AND AQUEOUS COSMETIC COMPOSITION USING THE SAME | COUGHLIN, DANIEL F | 1619 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 24, 2025 |
| 18993157 | MARKER COMPOSITION FOR SKIN, AND APPLICATION TOOL FOR SAME | AL-AWADI, DANAH J | 1615 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 10, 2025 |
| 18871382 | RESIN FOR HAIR COSMETICS, AND HAIR COSMETIC | BURKE, MATTHEW RYAN | 1619 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 03, 2024 |
| 18865009 | INK STORAGE MEMBER FOR WRITING IMPLEMENTS | OLIVER, BRADLEY S | 3754 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 12, 2024 |
| 18726214 | WRITING IMPLEMENT REFILL AND METHOD OF ENGRAVING WRITING IMPLEMENT REFILL | OLIVER, BRADLEY S | 3754 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 27d | Pending | Jul 02, 2024 |
| 18722637 | AQUEOUS LIQUID COSMETIC MATERIAL | FUBARA, BLESSING M | 1613 | §103DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 21, 2024 |
| 18717176 | AQUEOUS LIQUID COSMETIC | PALENIK, JEFFREY T | 1615 | §102§103§112DP | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jun 06, 2024 |
| 18706826 | AQUEOUS LIQUID COSMETIC | SCOTLAND, REBECCA LYNN | 1615 | §102§103§112 | Final Rejection | 28d | Pending | May 02, 2024 |
| 18626530 | AQUEOUS GLITTERING INK FOR MINIATURE PAINTING AND APPLICATORS | EASHOO, MARK | 1767 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 04, 2024 |
| 18690892 | REDUCING PARTICLE DISPERSION | NGUYEN, KHANH TUAN | 1761 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 84d | Pending | Mar 11, 2024 |
| 18291354 | AQUEOUS INK COMPOSITION FOR WRITING INSTRUMENTS | HALL, DEVE V. | 1763 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 23, 2024 |
| 18554862 | INK COMPOSITION FOR AQUEOUS BALLPOINT PEN | ILLING, CAITLIN NORINE | 1767 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Oct 11, 2023 |
| 18549397 | OILY INK COMPOSITION | KARST, DAVID THOMAS | 1767 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Sep 07, 2023 |
| 18278733 | COMPOSITE COLORED PARTICLES | LIOTT, CAROLINE DUSHECK | 1732 | §103§112DP | Non-Final OA | 70d overdue | Pending | Aug 24, 2023 |
| 18274996 | PRUSSIAN BLUE DISPERSION FOR COSMETICS, AND COSMETICS INCLUDING SAME | LIU, TRACY | 1614 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jul 29, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialMITSUBISHI PENCIL Company, Limited has 19 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 10 art units and 18 examiners.
Bradley S Oliver has the most, with 2 of MITSUBISHI PENCIL Company, Limited's pending office actions.
Mostly Chemistry & Materials (USPTO Tech Center 1700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
