Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
6 pending office actions • 6 art units • 6 examiners • 0 of 6 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 6 patents granted in the last 365 days
NAMICS Corporation currently manages 6 pending office actions within the Chemistry & Materials technology area. These 6 pending office actions are spread across 6 distinct examiners and 6 distinct art units, creating a decentralized prosecution landscape. Each active matter is being reviewed by a different individual in a different department, suggesting that the company's Chemistry & Materials innovations are highly diverse and specialized.
The busiest examiner, WILLIAMS, CEDRICK S, holds 1 pending office action, which is consistent with the even distribution across the 6 distinct examiners. This lack of concentration means that no single examiner or art unit has a dominant influence over the portfolio. Practitioners must be prepared to manage 6 different sets of examiner preferences and 6 different departmental standards. With 6 pending office actions to track across 6 distinct art units, the company must maintain a versatile strategy to ensure consistency in its Chemistry & Materials filings despite the broad administrative spread.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 2 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 | 4 (67%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (33%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| WILLIAMS, CEDRICK S | 1 | 60.0% | +26.4% |
| NORRIS, JEREMY C | 1 | 86.8% | +4.3% |
| HEINCER, LIAM J | 1 | 55.8% | +26.0% |
| WITTENBERG, STEFANIE S | 1 | 54.6% | +17.6% |
| LING, DORIS | 1 | 25.0% | +27.3% |
| CAI, WENWEN | 1 | 59.9% | +19.4% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18880821 | CONDUCTIVE PASTE, ELECTRIC CIRCUIT, FLEXIBLE ELECTRIC CIRCUIT BODY AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING MOLDED BODY | NORRIS, JEREMY C | — |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18033660 | BASE-RELEASING COMPOSITION AND CURABLE RESIN COMPOSITION USING THE SAME | CAI, WENWEN | 7d |
| 18277309 | EPOXY RESIN COMPOSITION, SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE, AND METHOD OF PRODUCING SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE | LING, DORIS | 8d |
| 18689720 | RESIN COMPOSITION, SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE, AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE | HEINCER, LIAM J | — |
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 5 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18033660 | BASE-RELEASING COMPOSITION AND CURABLE RESIN COMPOSITION USING THE SAME | CAI, WENWEN | 7d |
| 18277309 | EPOXY RESIN COMPOSITION, SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE, AND METHOD OF PRODUCING SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE | LING, DORIS | 8d |
| 18291755 | LIQUID COMPRESSION MOLDING MATERIAL, ELECTRONIC COMPONENT, SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE | WILLIAMS, CEDRICK S | — |
| 18689720 | RESIN COMPOSITION, SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE, AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE | HEINCER, LIAM J | — |
| 18551955 | METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING LAMINATE | WITTENBERG, STEFANIE S | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1749 | 1 |
| 2847 | 1 |
| 1767 | 1 |
| 1795 | 1 |
| 1764 | 1 |
| 1763 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18291755 | LIQUID COMPRESSION MOLDING MATERIAL, ELECTRONIC COMPONENT, SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE | WILLIAMS, CEDRICK S | 1749 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 04, 2025 |
| 18880821 | CONDUCTIVE PASTE, ELECTRIC CIRCUIT, FLEXIBLE ELECTRIC CIRCUIT BODY AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING MOLDED BODY | NORRIS, JEREMY C | 2847 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 02, 2025 |
| 18689720 | RESIN COMPOSITION, SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE, AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE | HEINCER, LIAM J | 1767 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 06, 2024 |
| 18551955 | METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING LAMINATE | WITTENBERG, STEFANIE S | 1795 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Sep 22, 2023 |
| 18277309 | EPOXY RESIN COMPOSITION, SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE, AND METHOD OF PRODUCING SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE | LING, DORIS | 1764 | §103 | Final Rejection | 8d | Pending | Aug 15, 2023 |
| 18033660 | BASE-RELEASING COMPOSITION AND CURABLE RESIN COMPOSITION USING THE SAME | CAI, WENWEN | 1763 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | 7d | Pending | Apr 25, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialNAMICS Corporation has 6 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 6 art units and 6 examiners.
Cedrick S Williams has the most, with 1 of NAMICS Corporation's pending office actions.
Mostly Chemistry & Materials (USPTO Tech Center 1700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
