Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
1 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 9 patents granted in the last 365 days
Mitsui Kinzoku Company Limited currently has 1 pending office action in the Chemistry & Materials technology area. This single matter is assigned to examiner SAAD, ERIN BARRY. Consequently, SAAD, ERIN BARRY is the busiest examiner for the portfolio with 1 pending case.
The prosecution activity is concentrated in 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit. This indicates a singular focus for the company's current pending workload at the patent office. With only 1 pending office action, the immediate prosecution strategy is tied entirely to the interactions within this one art unit.
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 |
|---|---|
| §112 only | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| SAAD, ERIN BARRY | 1 | 72.4% | +11.4% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19485177 | METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING JOINT STRUCTURE, METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING LAMINATE, AND JOINT METHOD | SAAD, ERIN BARRY | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1735 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19485177 | METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING JOINT STRUCTURE, METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING LAMINATE, AND JOINT METHOD | SAAD, ERIN BARRY | 1735 | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 17, 2025 |
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Start Free TrialMitsui Kinzoku Company Limited has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Erin Barry Saad has the most, with 1 of Mitsui Kinzoku Company Limited's pending office actions.
Mostly Chemistry & Materials (USPTO Tech Center 1700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
