Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
5 pending office actions • 3 art units • 5 examiners • 0 of 5 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Nisshinbo Chemical Inc. is managing 4 pending office actions within the Chemistry & Materials technology area. These actions are spread across 4 distinct examiners and 3 distinct art units. This distribution indicates that the company's chemical innovations are being reviewed by multiple specialized groups within the USPTO.
ANGEBRANNDT, MARTIN J is the busiest examiner for the company. This examiner is responsible for 1 busiest examiner pending office action. With 4 pending office actions in total, the workload is distributed among the examiners, with each handling a single matter. This decentralized structure requires the applicant to manage multiple examiner relationships simultaneously.
The presence of 3 distinct art units indicates that the company's patent applications are being reviewed by multiple specialized groups within the USPTO. This structural variety in prosecution, combined with the multiple examiners, requires the company to maintain a cohesive legal strategy while addressing the specific technical requirements of each art unit within the Chemistry & Materials sector.
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 | 1 (20%) |
| §102 only | 1 (20%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 3 (60%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| MELFI, OLIVIA MASON | 1 | 57.4% | +27.4% |
| ANGEBRANNDT, MARTIN J | 1 | 55.5% | +34.0% |
| KOLB, KATARZYNA I | 1 | 45.2% | +15.9% |
| ILLING, CAITLIN NORINE | 1 | 48.9% | +37.7% |
| BLEDSOE, JOSHUA CALEB | 1 | 44.4% | +52.7% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18022299 | AQUEOUS RESIN CROSSLINKING AGENT, AQUEOUS RESIN CROSSLINKING AGENT-CONTAINING LIQUID, AQUEOUS RESIN COMPOSITION, CURED FILM AND ARTICLE | ILLING, CAITLIN NORINE | 21d |
| 18022426 | CROSSLINKING AGENT FOR WATER-COMPATIBLE RESIN, LIQUID CONTAINING CROSSLINKING AGENT FOR WATER-COMPATIBLE RESIN, WATER-COMPATIBLE-RESIN COMPOSITION, CURED FILM, AND ARTICLE | KOLB, KATARZYNA I | 40d |
| 18039390 | MEMBER FOR EXPOSURE DEVICE, MANUFACTURING METHOD FOR MEMBER FOR EXPOSURE DEVICE, AND COMPOSITE MEMBER FOR EXPOSURE DEVICE | ANGEBRANNDT, MARTIN J | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18022299 | AQUEOUS RESIN CROSSLINKING AGENT, AQUEOUS RESIN CROSSLINKING AGENT-CONTAINING LIQUID, AQUEOUS RESIN COMPOSITION, CURED FILM AND ARTICLE | ILLING, CAITLIN NORINE | 21d |
| 18022426 | CROSSLINKING AGENT FOR WATER-COMPATIBLE RESIN, LIQUID CONTAINING CROSSLINKING AGENT FOR WATER-COMPATIBLE RESIN, WATER-COMPATIBLE-RESIN COMPOSITION, CURED FILM, AND ARTICLE | KOLB, KATARZYNA I | 40d |
| 18022393 | AQUEOUS RESIN CROSSLINKING AGENT, AQUEOUS RESIN CROSSLINKING AGENT-CONTAINING LIQUID, AND AQUEOUS RESIN COMPOSITION | BLEDSOE, JOSHUA CALEB | 47d |
| 18690816 | FUEL CELL SEPARATOR | MELFI, OLIVIA MASON | — |
| 18039390 | MEMBER FOR EXPOSURE DEVICE, MANUFACTURING METHOD FOR MEMBER FOR EXPOSURE DEVICE, AND COMPOSITE MEMBER FOR EXPOSURE DEVICE | ANGEBRANNDT, MARTIN J | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1767 | 2 |
| 1737 | 1 |
| 1762 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18690816 | FUEL CELL SEPARATOR | MELFI, OLIVIA MASON | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 11, 2024 |
| 18039390 | MEMBER FOR EXPOSURE DEVICE, MANUFACTURING METHOD FOR MEMBER FOR EXPOSURE DEVICE, AND COMPOSITE MEMBER FOR EXPOSURE DEVICE | ANGEBRANNDT, MARTIN J | 1737 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 30, 2023 |
| 18022426 | CROSSLINKING AGENT FOR WATER-COMPATIBLE RESIN, LIQUID CONTAINING CROSSLINKING AGENT FOR WATER-COMPATIBLE RESIN, WATER-COMPATIBLE-RESIN COMPOSITION, CURED FILM, AND ARTICLE | KOLB, KATARZYNA I | 1767 | §102§103§112 | Final Rejection | 40d | Pending | Feb 21, 2023 |
| 18022299 | AQUEOUS RESIN CROSSLINKING AGENT, AQUEOUS RESIN CROSSLINKING AGENT-CONTAINING LIQUID, AQUEOUS RESIN COMPOSITION, CURED FILM AND ARTICLE | ILLING, CAITLIN NORINE | 1767 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | 21d | Pending | Feb 21, 2023 |
| 18022393 | AQUEOUS RESIN CROSSLINKING AGENT, AQUEOUS RESIN CROSSLINKING AGENT-CONTAINING LIQUID, AND AQUEOUS RESIN COMPOSITION | BLEDSOE, JOSHUA CALEB | 1762 | §102 | Non-Final OA | 47d | Pending | Feb 21, 2023 |
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