Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
3 pending office actions • 2 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 2 patents granted in the last 365 days
Nippon Fiber Corporation maintains a patent portfolio in the Chemistry & Materials technology area with 3 pending office actions. These actions are distributed among 3 distinct examiners, indicating that each pending matter is being reviewed by a different individual. This distribution requires the company to adapt to different examination styles simultaneously.
The portfolio's active matters are spread across 2 distinct art units, suggesting that while the technology is centered in Chemistry & Materials, it spans multiple specialized sub-groups. WIESE, NOAH S is identified as the busiest examiner, responsible for a busiest examiner pending count of 1. This highlights that the workload is spread out, as no single examiner holds multiple pending office actions.
For practitioners, the presence of multiple distinct examiners across 2 distinct art units means that prosecution strategies must be tailored to the specific nuances of each examiner. The lack of concentration under a single examiner suggests a diversified approach to securing patent rights within this technical sector.
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 (33%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (67%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| WIESE, NOAH S | 1 | 83.3% | -1.7% |
| VETERE, ROBERT A | 1 | 61.4% | +12.9% |
| DIAZ, MATTHEW R | 1 | 54.0% | +43.4% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18269884 | INORGANIC COMPOSITION AND FIBERS AND FLAKES THEREOF | WIESE, NOAH S | — |
| 18030448 | RADIATION RESISTANT INORGANIC OXIDE FLAKES | DIAZ, MATTHEW R | — |
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 |
| 18030448 | RADIATION RESISTANT INORGANIC OXIDE FLAKES | DIAZ, MATTHEW R | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1712 | 1 |
| 1761 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18269884 | INORGANIC COMPOSITION AND FIBERS AND FLAKES THEREOF | WIESE, NOAH S | — | §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 |
| 18030448 | RADIATION RESISTANT INORGANIC OXIDE FLAKES | DIAZ, MATTHEW R | 1761 | §103§112Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 05, 2023 |
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