Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
1 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Nichimo Co. Ltd. has 1 pending office action currently active in the Chemistry & Materials technology area. The prosecution of this portfolio is highly centralized, involving 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit. This concentration suggests a focused technological scope for the company's current patent filings. Because there is only 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit, the entire pending workload is managed by the assigned individual in a specialized section of the office.
The busiest examiner identified in the data is MCKINNON, LASHAWNDA T, who is assigned 1 pending office action. Navigating the pending matter with 1 distinct examiner allows for a highly targeted legal strategy, as there are no other active matters to balance within the Chemistry & Materials area. This 1 distinct art unit represents the technical environment for the company's current pending intellectual property, requiring a precise response to the 1 pending office action.
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 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| MCKINNON, LASHAWNDA T | 1 | 54.0% | +30.2% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18569682 | MARINE MATERIAL AND PRODUCTION METHOD THEREFOR | MCKINNON, LASHAWNDA T | 20d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1789 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18569682 | MARINE MATERIAL AND PRODUCTION METHOD THEREFOR | MCKINNON, LASHAWNDA T | 1789 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 20d | Pending | Dec 13, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialNichimo Co. Ltd. has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Lashawnda T Mckinnon has the most, with 1 of Nichimo Co. Ltd.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Chemistry & Materials (USPTO Tech Center 1700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
