Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
4 pending office actions • 2 art units • 4 examiners • 0 of 4 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Morinaga & Co. Ltd. currently has 3 pending office actions in the Chemistry & Materials technology area. These actions are being handled by 3 distinct examiners, which indicates that each pending matter is under the review of a different individual. Despite the variety of examiners, the prosecution is contained within 2 distinct art units, suggesting some overlap in the technical classifications of the company's current filings.
The busiest examiner for the company is CHAWLA, JYOTI, who is managing 1 busiest examiner pending office action. Since there are 3 pending office actions in total, the workload is evenly distributed among the examiners. For the practitioner, this means that while the technical focus is relatively narrow across 2 art units, the legal strategy must be tailored to the specific feedback and styles of three different examiners simultaneously.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 1 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.
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 | 1 (25%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 3 (75%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| CHAWLA, JYOTI | 1 | 52.7% | +30.5% |
| MCNEIL, JENNIFER C | 1 | 23.7% | +20.0% |
| MORNHINWEG, JEFFREY P | 1 | 36.7% | +32.2% |
| MERRIAM, ANDREW E | 1 | 28.3% | +33.9% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 4 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18588823 | COLLAGEN-RICH FOOD OR BEVERAGE PRODUCT | MCNEIL, JENNIFER C | 66d overdue |
| 18688500 | JELLY BEVERAGE | CHAWLA, JYOTI | — |
| 18567410 | BEVERAGE | MORNHINWEG, JEFFREY P | — |
| 18003850 | INGREDIENT-STUFFED SOFT CANDY | MERRIAM, ANDREW E | — |
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 4 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18588823 | COLLAGEN-RICH FOOD OR BEVERAGE PRODUCT | MCNEIL, JENNIFER C | 66d overdue |
| 18688500 | JELLY BEVERAGE | CHAWLA, JYOTI | — |
| 18567410 | BEVERAGE | MORNHINWEG, JEFFREY P | — |
| 18003850 | INGREDIENT-STUFFED SOFT CANDY | MERRIAM, ANDREW E | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1791 | 2 |
| 1793 | 2 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18688500 | JELLY BEVERAGE | CHAWLA, JYOTI | 1791 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 01, 2024 |
| 18588823 | COLLAGEN-RICH FOOD OR BEVERAGE PRODUCT | MCNEIL, JENNIFER C | 1793 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | 66d overdue | Pending | Feb 27, 2024 |
| 18567410 | BEVERAGE | MORNHINWEG, JEFFREY P | 1793 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 06, 2023 |
| 18003850 | INGREDIENT-STUFFED SOFT CANDY | MERRIAM, ANDREW E | 1791 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Dec 29, 2022 |
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Start Free TrialMorinaga & Co. Ltd. has 4 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 2 art units and 4 examiners.
Jyoti Chawla has the most, with 1 of Morinaga & Co. Ltd.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Chemistry & Materials (USPTO Tech Center 1700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
