Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
3 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 2 patents granted in the last 365 days
Nippon Fiber Corporation is managing 3 pending office actions in the Chemistry & Materials technology area. The portfolio is distributed across 3 distinct art units and 3 distinct examiners, showing a one-to-one ratio of actions to examiners. This spread across 3 distinct art units indicates that the company's chemical innovations are being evaluated under different sets of technical criteria within the USPTO.
WIESE, NOAH S is the busiest examiner, responsible for 1 pending office action. With 3 examiners assigned to the 3 pending office actions, the current prosecution workload is evenly divided. For the practitioner, this means that each of the 3 matters requires an independent strategy, as there is no overlap in examiners or art units. The involvement of WIESE, NOAH S in only 1 pending office action highlights the individualized nature of the current prosecution for the company's portfolio.
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 | 2 (67%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| VETERE, ROBERT A | 2 | 61.5% | +12.8% |
| WIESE, NOAH S | 1 | 83.4% | -1.8% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18269884 | INORGANIC COMPOSITION AND FIBERS AND FLAKES THEREOF | WIESE, NOAH S | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18285819 | ALKALI-RESISTANT NON-CRYSTALLINE INORGANIC COMPOSITION AND FIBER THEREOF | VETERE, ROBERT A | 16d overdue |
| 18257242 | REINFORCING GLASS FIBER, CHOPPED STRAND, FIBER SHEET, AND ROD | VETERE, ROBERT A | 28d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1712 | 2 |
| 1731 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18269884 | INORGANIC COMPOSITION AND FIBERS AND FLAKES THEREOF | WIESE, NOAH S | 1731 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 12, 2024 |
| 18285819 | ALKALI-RESISTANT NON-CRYSTALLINE INORGANIC COMPOSITION AND FIBER THEREOF | VETERE, ROBERT A | 1712 | §103 | Final Rejection | 16d overdue | Pending | Oct 05, 2023 |
| 18257242 | REINFORCING GLASS FIBER, CHOPPED STRAND, FIBER SHEET, AND ROD | VETERE, ROBERT A | 1712 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 28d | Pending | Jun 13, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialNippon Fiber Corporation has 3 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 2 art units and 2 examiners.
Robert A Vetere has the most, with 2 of Nippon Fiber Corporation's pending office actions.
Mostly Chemistry & Materials (USPTO Tech Center 1700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
