Technology areas: Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals • Chemistry & Materials
3 pending office actions • 3 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 3 patents granted in the last 365 days
National University Corporation Kanazawa University has 3 pending office actions in Chemistry & Materials. The matters involve 3 distinct examiners and 3 distinct art units, indicating separate examination assignments across the current docket.
COLENA, TRACY CHING-TIAN is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending matter. Counsel should coordinate the portfolio's technical positions while addressing each action independently because the examiner and art-unit contexts differ.
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 |
|---|---|
| §101 + other | 2 (67%) |
| §102 only | 1 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| COLENA, TRACY CHING-TIAN | 1 | 81.8% | +42.4% |
| LEE, WILLIAM Y | 1 | 48.0% | +34.1% |
| WOO, JONATHAN BRIAN | 1 | 48.1% | +47.0% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18557093 | KNEADING STATE DETECTION DEVICE AND KNEADING STATE DETECTION METHOD FOR EXTRUSION MOLDING MACHINE | WOO, JONATHAN BRIAN | 27d |
| 18291509 | Biomarker for Detecting Hepatocytes With Bile Ductular Proliferation | COLENA, TRACY CHING-TIAN | — |
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 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18557093 | KNEADING STATE DETECTION DEVICE AND KNEADING STATE DETECTION METHOD FOR EXTRUSION MOLDING MACHINE | WOO, JONATHAN BRIAN | 27d |
| 18291509 | Biomarker for Detecting Hepatocytes With Bile Ductular Proliferation | COLENA, TRACY CHING-TIAN | — |
| 18561927 | COMPOSITION FOR REGULATING CARBOHYDRATE METABOLISM, AND METHOD FOR ASSESSING CARBOHYDRATE METABOLISM CONDITIONS OF SUBJECT | LEE, WILLIAM Y | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1797 | 1 |
| 1623 | 1 |
| 1754 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18291509 | Biomarker for Detecting Hepatocytes With Bile Ductular Proliferation | COLENA, TRACY CHING-TIAN | 1797 | §101§102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 23, 2024 |
| 18561927 | COMPOSITION FOR REGULATING CARBOHYDRATE METABOLISM, AND METHOD FOR ASSESSING CARBOHYDRATE METABOLISM CONDITIONS OF SUBJECT | LEE, WILLIAM Y | 1623 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 17, 2023 |
| 18557093 | KNEADING STATE DETECTION DEVICE AND KNEADING STATE DETECTION METHOD FOR EXTRUSION MOLDING MACHINE | WOO, JONATHAN BRIAN | 1754 | §101§112 | Non-Final OA | 27d | Pending | Oct 25, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialNational University Corporation Kanazawa University has 3 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 3 art units and 3 examiners.
Tracy Ching-Tian Colena has the most, with 1 of National University Corporation Kanazawa University's pending office actions.
Mostly Chemistry & Materials (USPTO Tech Center 1700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
