Technology areas: Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals • Chemistry & Materials
9 pending office actions • 8 art units • 9 examiners • 0 of 9 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 25 patents granted in the last 365 days
Nippon Kayaku Kabushiki Kaisha has 9 pending office actions in Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals. The matters are distributed among 9 examiners across 8 art units, creating a broad workload with extensive examiner coverage and limited art-unit concentration.
IVANOVA, SVETLANA M is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending matter. Each examiner carries one listed matter, so the principal management challenge is coordinating many individual responses while preserving a coherent biotechnology and pharmaceutical claim strategy.
The spread across 8 art units supports matter-specific technical analysis rather than a uniform response approach. A central prosecution matrix can still capture recurring prior-art themes, claim amendments, and deadlines without assuming that one examiner's position applies throughout the 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 | 3 (33%) |
| §102 only | 2 (22%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 1 (11%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 3 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| IVANOVA, SVETLANA M | 1 | 50.9% | +51.8% |
| BASQUILL, SEAN M | 1 | 38.8% | +21.7% |
| HERNANDEZ, JACKSON J | 1 | 50.7% | +39.2% |
| PEO, JONATHAN M | 1 | 48.4% | +47.6% |
| FELTON, AILEEN BAKER | 1 | 51.7% | +16.7% |
| YOON, TAE H | 1 | 66.7% | +24.5% |
| STEPHENS, AMELIA CAROLE | 1 | 75.0% | +50.0% |
| SHAH, MANISH S | 1 | 86.0% | +7.2% |
| KARST, DAVID THOMAS | 1 | 64.8% | +9.7% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18553835 | INKJET INK, INK SET, INK MEDIUM SET, AND PRINTING MEDIUM | SHAH, MANISH S | — |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18519225 | COMBINED USE OF UBENIMEX AND IMMUNE CHECKPOINT INHIBITOR | STEPHENS, AMELIA CAROLE | 14d |
| 18711667 | IGNITION AGENT AND IGNITER INCLUDING THE SAME | FELTON, AILEEN BAKER | 33d |
| 18294340 | Polyimide Resin, Resin Composition Comprising Polyimide Resin and Cured Product Thereof | YOON, TAE H | — |
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 7 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18519225 | COMBINED USE OF UBENIMEX AND IMMUNE CHECKPOINT INHIBITOR | STEPHENS, AMELIA CAROLE | 14d |
| 18711667 | IGNITION AGENT AND IGNITER INCLUDING THE SAME | FELTON, AILEEN BAKER | 33d |
| 18845717 | PEST CONTROLLING AGENT | IVANOVA, SVETLANA M | — |
| 18845312 | AGROCHEMICAL EMULSIFIABLE COMPOSITION | BASQUILL, SEAN M | — |
| 18843615 | AGRICULTURE COMPOSITION | HERNANDEZ, JACKSON J | — |
| 18727188 | WINDING FILTER | PEO, JONATHAN M | — |
| 18294340 | Polyimide Resin, Resin Composition Comprising Polyimide Resin and Cured Product Thereof | YOON, TAE H | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1627 | 2 |
| 1614 | 1 |
| 1779 | 1 |
| 1734 | 1 |
| 1762 | 1 |
| 1645 | 1 |
| 2853 | 1 |
| 3991 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18845717 | PEST CONTROLLING AGENT | IVANOVA, SVETLANA M | 1627 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 10, 2024 |
| 18845312 | AGROCHEMICAL EMULSIFIABLE COMPOSITION | BASQUILL, SEAN M | 1614 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Sep 09, 2024 |
| 18843615 | AGRICULTURE COMPOSITION | HERNANDEZ, JACKSON J | 1627 | §103§112DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 03, 2024 |
| 18727188 | WINDING FILTER | PEO, JONATHAN M | 1779 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jul 08, 2024 |
| 18711667 | IGNITION AGENT AND IGNITER INCLUDING THE SAME | FELTON, AILEEN BAKER | 1734 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | 33d | Pending | May 20, 2024 |
| 18294340 | Polyimide Resin, Resin Composition Comprising Polyimide Resin and Cured Product Thereof | YOON, TAE H | 1762 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 01, 2024 |
| 18519225 | COMBINED USE OF UBENIMEX AND IMMUNE CHECKPOINT INHIBITOR | STEPHENS, AMELIA CAROLE | 1645 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 14d | Pending | Nov 27, 2023 |
| 18553835 | INKJET INK, INK SET, INK MEDIUM SET, AND PRINTING MEDIUM | SHAH, MANISH S | 2853 | §102 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Oct 03, 2023 |
| 18284102 | CURABLE RESIN COMPOSITION AND CURED OBJECT OBTAINED THEREFROM | KARST, DAVID THOMAS | 3991 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 26, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialNippon Kayaku Kabushiki Kaisha has 9 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 8 art units and 9 examiners.
Svetlana M Ivanova has the most, with 1 of Nippon Kayaku Kabushiki Kaisha's pending office actions.
Mostly Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals (USPTO Tech Center 1600), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
