Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
1 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Nagata Sangyo Co. Ltd. holds a patent portfolio in the Chemistry & Materials technology area. There is 1 pending office action currently recorded for the company. This action is assigned to 1 distinct examiner and is located within 1 distinct art unit. The presence of 1 distinct art unit suggests that the company's current chemistry and materials research is focused on 1 technical classification at the USPTO.
LEBLANC, KATHERINE DEGUIRE is the busiest examiner for this portfolio, handling 1 pending office action. The data shows that the company's current prosecution activity is limited to 1 examiner and 1 art unit. This indicates a concentrated approach to its Chemistry & Materials intellectual property at the present time. With 1 pending office action and 1 distinct examiner, the prosecution process is streamlined. Practitioners should note that LEBLANC, KATHERINE DEGUIRE is the sole examiner currently reviewing the company's pending matters. This structure affects the management of the current patent application process within 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 |
|---|---|
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| LEBLANC, KATHERINE DEGUIRE | 1 | 34.6% | +36.0% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18564707 | MEAT-LIKE PROTEIN COMPOSITION, METHOD FOR PRODUCING THE SAME, MEAT-LIKE FOOD PRODUCT INCLUDING THE SAME, ADDITIVE COMPOSITION, AND USE THEREOF | LEBLANC, KATHERINE DEGUIRE | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18564707 | MEAT-LIKE PROTEIN COMPOSITION, METHOD FOR PRODUCING THE SAME, MEAT-LIKE FOOD PRODUCT INCLUDING THE SAME, ADDITIVE COMPOSITION, AND USE THEREOF | LEBLANC, KATHERINE DEGUIRE | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1791 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18564707 | MEAT-LIKE PROTEIN COMPOSITION, METHOD FOR PRODUCING THE SAME, MEAT-LIKE FOOD PRODUCT INCLUDING THE SAME, ADDITIVE COMPOSITION, AND USE THEREOF | LEBLANC, KATHERINE DEGUIRE | 1791 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 28, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialNagata Sangyo Co. Ltd. has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Katherine Deguire Leblanc has the most, with 1 of Nagata Sangyo Co. Ltd.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Chemistry & Materials (USPTO Tech Center 1700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
