Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
7 pending office actions • 4 art units • 6 examiners • 0 of 7 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 11 patents granted in the last 365 days
NIPPON LIGHT METAL Company, Ltd. has 7 pending office actions in Chemistry & Materials. The matters are handled by 6 distinct examiners across 4 distinct art units, showing examiner variety with some art-unit concentration.
PATEL, DEVANG R is the busiest examiner, with 2 pending matters. A coordinated approach to recurring issues may be useful for that examiner, while the remaining matters require separate examiner-specific analysis.
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 | 6 (86%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (14%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| PATEL, DEVANG R | 2 | 65.6% | +39.0% |
| MELENDEZ, ARMAND | 1 | 46.1% | +43.1% |
| ABOAGYE, MICHAEL | 1 | 75.4% | +37.7% |
| BAUM, ZACHARY JOHN | 1 | 81.2% | +15.2% |
| TAVAKOLDAVANI, KAMRAN | 1 | 81.5% | +6.8% |
| ROE, JESSEE RANDALL | 1 | 76.5% | +7.8% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18702547 | HIGH-PURITY MICROPARTICLE ALUMINA POWDER | BAUM, ZACHARY JOHN | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18695803 | COOLING DEVICE FOR POWER DEVICE | TAVAKOLDAVANI, KAMRAN | — |
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 5 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18996814 | METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING JOINED BODY | PATEL, DEVANG R | 23d overdue |
| 19090426 | EXTRUSION DIE FOR FORMING PATTERNED PRODUCT | MELENDEZ, ARMAND | — |
| 18842376 | ALUMINUM ALLOY FOR CASTING AND ALUMINUM ALLOY CASTING | ABOAGYE, MICHAEL | — |
| 18706708 | METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING JOINED BODY | PATEL, DEVANG R | — |
| 18702547 | HIGH-PURITY MICROPARTICLE ALUMINA POWDER | BAUM, ZACHARY JOHN | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1759 | 2 |
| 1735 | 2 |
| 1733 | 1 |
| 3763 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19090426 | EXTRUSION DIE FOR FORMING PATTERNED PRODUCT | MELENDEZ, ARMAND | 1759 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Mar 26, 2025 |
| 18996814 | METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING JOINED BODY | PATEL, DEVANG R | 1735 | §103 | Final Rejection | 23d overdue | Pending | Jan 17, 2025 |
| 18842376 | ALUMINUM ALLOY FOR CASTING AND ALUMINUM ALLOY CASTING | ABOAGYE, MICHAEL | 1733 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 28, 2024 |
| 18706708 | METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING JOINED BODY | PATEL, DEVANG R | 1735 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | May 01, 2024 |
| 18702547 | HIGH-PURITY MICROPARTICLE ALUMINA POWDER | BAUM, ZACHARY JOHN | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 18, 2024 |
| 18695803 | COOLING DEVICE FOR POWER DEVICE | TAVAKOLDAVANI, KAMRAN | 3763 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Mar 26, 2024 |
| 18019955 | ALUMINUM ALLOY FILLER METAL, ALUMINUM ALLOY WELDED STRUCTURE, AND METHOD FOR WELDING ALUMINUM MATERIAL | ROE, JESSEE RANDALL | 1759 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 06, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialNIPPON LIGHT METAL Company, Ltd. has 7 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 4 art units and 6 examiners.
Devang R Patel has the most, with 2 of NIPPON LIGHT METAL Company, Ltd.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Chemistry & Materials (USPTO Tech Center 1700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
