Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Chemistry & Materials • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
13 pending office actions • 9 art units • 12 examiners • 0 of 13 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 3 patents granted in the last 365 days
Nippon Paper Industries Co., Ltd. has 13 pending office actions within the Chemistry & Materials technology area. These matters are distributed among 12 distinct examiners and 9 distinct art units. The close alignment between the number of 13 pending actions and the number of 12 distinct examiners indicates a highly decentralized prosecution process where almost every case is handled by a different person.
The busiest examiner for the company is HIGGINS, GERARD T, who is managing 2 pending office actions. This represents a small fraction of the 13 total pending actions currently active for the portfolio. With 12 distinct examiners involved, the company must navigate a wide variety of individual examiner preferences and styles. The 2 pending office actions assigned to HIGGINS, GERARD T are the only instances of examiner overlap in the current data.
With 9 distinct art units involved, the portfolio shows significant technical diversity within the chemistry and materials sector. This breadth requires coordination across multiple examination groups, as the 13 pending office actions are spread across nearly as many art units as there are examiners. The prosecution strategy must therefore account for the specific requirements of 9 different technical classifications while managing the active matters.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 3 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. 3 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 | 7 (54%) |
| §102 only | 1 (8%) |
| §112 only | 1 (8%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 1 (8%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 3 (23%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| HIGGINS, GERARD T | 2 | 63.3% | +39.4% |
| THOMPSON, CAMIE S | 1 | 73.8% | +10.4% |
| DEMEREE, CHRISTOPHER R | 1 | 68.9% | +14.1% |
| AHVAZI, BIJAN | 1 | 63.2% | +47.3% |
| HENDRICKSON, STUART L | 1 | 72.3% | +8.0% |
| LA RAIA III, LAWRENCE | 1 | 72.2% | +36.2% |
| PATTERSON, MICHAEL CHRISTOPHER | 1 | 48.6% | +39.3% |
| DICUS, TAMRA | 1 | 30.5% | +21.4% |
| FIORITO, JAMES A | 1 | 71.6% | +27.9% |
| KRYLOVA, IRINA | 1 | 36.7% | +48.5% |
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 |
| 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 | — |
| 18290097 | DISPENSING PUMP FOR REFILLABLE CONTAINER | PATTERSON, MICHAEL CHRISTOPHER | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1785 | 2 |
| 3734 | 1 |
| 1788 | 1 |
| 3754 | 1 |
| 1787 | 1 |
| 1731 | 1 |
| 1764 | 1 |
| 1793 | 1 |
| 1722 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19108321 | CELLULOSE NANOFIBER, AND AQUEOUS DISPERSION COMPOSITION CONTAINING SAME | THOMPSON, CAMIE S | — | §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 | — | §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 | — | §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 |
| 18284747 | HARD COATING FILM | DICUS, TAMRA | 1787 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 20d | Pending | Sep 28, 2023 |
| 18283548 | THERMOSENSITIVE RECORDING MEDIUM | HIGGINS, GERARD T | 1785 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Sep 22, 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 |
| 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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