Technology areas: Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals • Chemistry & Materials
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Nippon Chemical Industrial Co., Ltd. has 2 pending office actions in Chemistry & Materials. The matters involve 2 distinct examiners and 2 distinct art units, so each current action presents a separate examiner and examination-group context. Counsel should coordinate the overall chemical strategy while tailoring the factual and claim analysis to each assignment.
HOBAN, MATTHEW E is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending matter. The busiest examiner handles one of the current actions, leaving the docket distributed rather than concentrated. A shared review of terminology and material properties can support consistency, but each response should remain tied to its own art-unit record.
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 | 2 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| HOBAN, MATTHEW E | 1 | 60.4% | +25.6% |
| PAGANO, ALEXANDER R | 1 | 78.7% | +11.4% |
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 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18842482 | METHOD FOR PRODUCING QUANTUM DOT | HOBAN, MATTHEW E | — |
| 17058221 | METHOD FOR PRODUCING PHOSPHINOBENZENE BORANE DERIVATIVE, METHOD FOR PRODUCING 1,2-BIS(DIALKYLPHOSPHINO)BENZENE DERIVATIVE, AND TRANSITION METAL COMPLEX | PAGANO, ALEXANDER R | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1734 | 1 |
| 1692 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18842482 | METHOD FOR PRODUCING QUANTUM DOT | HOBAN, MATTHEW E | 1734 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 29, 2024 |
| 17058221 | METHOD FOR PRODUCING PHOSPHINOBENZENE BORANE DERIVATIVE, METHOD FOR PRODUCING 1,2-BIS(DIALKYLPHOSPHINO)BENZENE DERIVATIVE, AND TRANSITION METAL COMPLEX | PAGANO, ALEXANDER R | 1692 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Nov 24, 2020 |
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Start Free TrialNippon Chemical Industrial Co., Ltd. has 2 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 2 art units and 2 examiners.
Matthew E Hoban has the most, with 1 of Nippon Chemical Industrial Co., Ltd.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Chemistry & Materials (USPTO Tech Center 1700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
