Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
14 pending office actions • 13 art units • 13 examiners • 0 of 14 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 3 patents granted in the last 365 days
Nippon Paper Industries Co., Ltd. has 14 pending office actions in Chemistry & Materials. Those matters are distributed across 13 distinct examiners and 13 distinct art units, indicating that the portfolio’s active prosecution is broadly dispersed rather than concentrated in a single examination group.
DICUS, TAMRA is the busiest examiner, with 2 pending matters. Because the leading examiner handles only a limited portion of the active work, prosecution planning should account for varied examiner practices and art-unit expectations across the portfolio.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 5 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.
Every pending office action with a known statutory deadline, placed on a days-until-due axis. Dots left of Today are overdue; the further right, the more runway. Cases that share a deadline window stack vertically. 5 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.
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 | 8 (57%) |
| §102 only | 1 (7%) |
| §112 only | 1 (7%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 1 (7%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 3 (21%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| DICUS, TAMRA | 2 | 30.4% | +21.3% |
| THOMPSON, CAMIE S | 1 | 73.7% | +10.5% |
| DEMEREE, CHRISTOPHER R | 1 | 68.9% | +14.2% |
| AHVAZI, BIJAN | 1 | 63.1% | +47.6% |
| HENDRICKSON, STUART L | 1 | 72.4% | +8.1% |
| LA RAIA III, LAWRENCE | 1 | 72.2% | +36.2% |
| PATTERSON, MICHAEL CHRISTOPHER | 1 | 48.6% | +39.3% |
| HIGGINS, GERARD T | 1 | 63.3% | +39.4% |
| FIORITO, JAMES A | 1 | 71.6% | +28.0% |
| KRYLOVA, IRINA | 1 | 36.6% | +48.3% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18290097 | DISPENSING PUMP FOR REFILLABLE CONTAINER | PATTERSON, MICHAEL CHRISTOPHER | — |
| 18282704 | THERMOSENSITIVE RECORDING MEDIUM | HIGGINS, GERARD T | — |
| 17791674 | BINDER FOR NON-AQUEOUS ELECTROLYTE SECONDARY BATTERY ELECTRODES, AQUEOUS SOLUTION, ELECTRODE COMPOSITION FOR NON-AQUEOUS ELECTROLYTE SECONDARY BATTERIES, AND ELECTRODE FOR NON-AQUEOUS ELECTROLYTE SECONDARY BATTERIES | CORNO JR, JAMES ANTHONY JOHN | — |
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 8 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18234466 | FORMED ADSORBER FOR CANISTER | FIORITO, JAMES A | 8d |
| 18284747 | HARD COATING FILM | DICUS, TAMRA | 20d |
| 18284713 | HARD COAT FILM | DICUS, TAMRA | 22d |
| 18018688 | MOLDING RESIN MATERIAL AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING THE SAME | KRYLOVA, IRINA | 68d |
| 19108321 | CELLULOSE NANOFIBER, AND AQUEOUS DISPERSION COMPOSITION CONTAINING SAME | THOMPSON, CAMIE S | — |
| 18851370 | PAPER CONTAINER | DEMEREE, CHRISTOPHER R | — |
| 18722285 | HARD COAT FILM | AHVAZI, BIJAN | — |
| 18574124 | NON-AQUEOUS ELECTROLYTE SECONDARY BATTERY ELECTRODE BINDER, NON-AQUEOUS ELECTROLYTE SECONDARY BATTERY ELECTRODE COMPOSITION, NON-AQUEOUS ELECTROLYTE SECONDARY BATTERY ELECTRODE, AND NON-AQUEOUS ELECTROLYTE SECONDARY BATTERY | LA RAIA III, LAWRENCE | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1787 | 2 |
| 1786 | 1 |
| 3734 | 1 |
| 1788 | 1 |
| 1736 | 1 |
| 1727 | 1 |
| 3754 | 1 |
| 1785 | 1 |
| 1731 | 1 |
| 1764 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19108321 | CELLULOSE NANOFIBER, AND AQUEOUS DISPERSION COMPOSITION CONTAINING SAME | THOMPSON, CAMIE S | 1786 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 03, 2025 |
| 18851370 | PAPER CONTAINER | DEMEREE, CHRISTOPHER R | 3734 | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 26, 2024 |
| 18722285 | HARD COAT FILM | AHVAZI, BIJAN | 1788 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 20, 2024 |
| 18618341 | FORMED ADSORBER FOR CANISTER | HENDRICKSON, STUART L | 1736 | §103§112DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 27, 2024 |
| 18574124 | NON-AQUEOUS ELECTROLYTE SECONDARY BATTERY ELECTRODE BINDER, NON-AQUEOUS ELECTROLYTE SECONDARY BATTERY ELECTRODE COMPOSITION, NON-AQUEOUS ELECTROLYTE SECONDARY BATTERY ELECTRODE, AND NON-AQUEOUS ELECTROLYTE SECONDARY BATTERY | LA RAIA III, LAWRENCE | 1727 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 26, 2023 |
| 18290097 | DISPENSING PUMP FOR REFILLABLE CONTAINER | PATTERSON, MICHAEL CHRISTOPHER | 3754 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Nov 09, 2023 |
| 18284713 | HARD COAT FILM | DICUS, TAMRA | 1787 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 22d | Pending | Sep 28, 2023 |
| 18284747 | HARD COATING FILM | DICUS, TAMRA | 1787 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 20d | Pending | Sep 28, 2023 |
| 18282704 | THERMOSENSITIVE RECORDING MEDIUM | HIGGINS, GERARD T | 1785 | §103§112Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 18, 2023 |
| 18234466 | FORMED ADSORBER FOR CANISTER | FIORITO, JAMES A | 1731 | §103 | Final Rejection | 8d | Pending | Aug 16, 2023 |
| 18018688 | MOLDING RESIN MATERIAL AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING THE SAME | KRYLOVA, IRINA | 1764 | §103 | Final Rejection | 68d | Pending | Jan 30, 2023 |
| 17949493 | FEED COMPOSITION AND MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREFOR | HAWKINS, AMANDA SALATA | 1793 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 21, 2022 |
| 17909117 | MATERIAL OF PAPER CONTAINER FOR LIQUID, AND PAPER CONTAINER FOR LIQUID | ROMANOWSKI, MICHAEL C | 1782 | §103 | Final Rejection | 22d | Pending | Sep 02, 2022 |
| 17791674 | BINDER FOR NON-AQUEOUS ELECTROLYTE SECONDARY BATTERY ELECTRODES, AQUEOUS SOLUTION, ELECTRODE COMPOSITION FOR NON-AQUEOUS ELECTROLYTE SECONDARY BATTERIES, AND ELECTRODE FOR NON-AQUEOUS ELECTROLYTE SECONDARY BATTERIES | CORNO JR, JAMES ANTHONY JOHN | 1722 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 08, 2022 |
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Start Free TrialNippon Paper Industries Co., Ltd. has 14 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 13 art units and 13 examiners.
Tamra Dicus has the most, with 2 of Nippon Paper Industries Co., Ltd.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Chemistry & Materials (USPTO Tech Center 1700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
