Technology areas: Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals • Chemistry & Materials
7 pending office actions • 5 art units • 6 examiners • 0 of 7 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 3 patents granted in the last 365 days
Nissui Corporation has 6 pending office actions in Chemistry & Materials. The matters involve 5 distinct examiners and 4 distinct art units, creating a prosecution portfolio that spans several examination settings.
LI, CHANGQING is the busiest examiner, with 2 pending matters. Counsel should coordinate portfolio-wide themes where appropriate, while maintaining matter-specific responses for the different examiners and art units.
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 | 2 (29%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 5 (71%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| LI, CHANGQING | 2 | 29.2% | +33.1% |
| VIGIL, TORIANA NICHOLE | 1 | 52.9% | +26.8% |
| LEBLANC, KATHERINE DEGUIRE | 1 | 34.6% | +36.0% |
| SILVERMAN, JANICE Y | 1 | 37.6% | +53.0% |
| THROWER, LARRY W | 1 | 65.9% | +12.6% |
| CARR, DEBORAH D | 1 | 81.8% | +2.9% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 6 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18276468 | PRODUCTION METHOD FOR PROTEIN PROCESSED FOOD, PRODUCTION DEVICE FOR PROTEIN PROCESSED FOOD, AND PROTEIN PROCESSED FOOD | THROWER, LARRY W | 16d overdue |
| 18881003 | ENDURANCE ENHANCER | VIGIL, TORIANA NICHOLE | — |
| 18913065 | METHOD FOR PRODUCING PROCESSED MEAT-LIKE FOOD PRODUCT, METHOD FOR IMPROVING JUICINESS OF PROCESSED MEAT-LIKE FOOD PRODUCT, METHOD FOR PREVENTING BREAKAGE OF EMULSIFIED GEL, AND FROZEN EMULSIFIED GEL | LI, CHANGQING | — |
| 18911419 | EMULSIFIED GEL, METHOD FOR PRODUCING EMULSIFIED GEL, PROCESSED MEAT-LIKE FOOD PRODUCT, AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING PROCESSED MEAT-LIKE FOOD PRODUCT | LI, CHANGQING | — |
| 18823976 | PACKAGED FISH MEAT, FROZEN MINCED FISH MEAT, AND METHOD FOR PREVENTING AGGLUTINATION OF FROZEN MINCED FISH MEAT | LEBLANC, KATHERINE DEGUIRE | — |
| 18230530 | Very Long Chain Polyunsaturated Fatty Acid Composition | CARR, DEBORAH D | — |
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 6 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18276468 | PRODUCTION METHOD FOR PROTEIN PROCESSED FOOD, PRODUCTION DEVICE FOR PROTEIN PROCESSED FOOD, AND PROTEIN PROCESSED FOOD | THROWER, LARRY W | 16d overdue |
| 18429543 | PRODUCTION METHOD FOR TEXTURED VEGETABLE PROTEIN COMPOSITE FOOD, AND TEXTURED VEGETABLE PROTEIN COMPOSITE FOOD | SILVERMAN, JANICE Y | 70d |
| 18881003 | ENDURANCE ENHANCER | VIGIL, TORIANA NICHOLE | — |
| 18913065 | METHOD FOR PRODUCING PROCESSED MEAT-LIKE FOOD PRODUCT, METHOD FOR IMPROVING JUICINESS OF PROCESSED MEAT-LIKE FOOD PRODUCT, METHOD FOR PREVENTING BREAKAGE OF EMULSIFIED GEL, AND FROZEN EMULSIFIED GEL | LI, CHANGQING | — |
| 18911419 | EMULSIFIED GEL, METHOD FOR PRODUCING EMULSIFIED GEL, PROCESSED MEAT-LIKE FOOD PRODUCT, AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING PROCESSED MEAT-LIKE FOOD PRODUCT | LI, CHANGQING | — |
| 18823976 | PACKAGED FISH MEAT, FROZEN MINCED FISH MEAT, AND METHOD FOR PREVENTING AGGLUTINATION OF FROZEN MINCED FISH MEAT | LEBLANC, KATHERINE DEGUIRE | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1791 | 3 |
| 1612 | 1 |
| 1792 | 1 |
| 1754 | 1 |
| 1691 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18881003 | ENDURANCE ENHANCER | VIGIL, TORIANA NICHOLE | 1612 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 03, 2025 |
| 18913065 | METHOD FOR PRODUCING PROCESSED MEAT-LIKE FOOD PRODUCT, METHOD FOR IMPROVING JUICINESS OF PROCESSED MEAT-LIKE FOOD PRODUCT, METHOD FOR PREVENTING BREAKAGE OF EMULSIFIED GEL, AND FROZEN EMULSIFIED GEL | LI, CHANGQING | 1791 | §103§112Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 11, 2024 |
| 18911419 | EMULSIFIED GEL, METHOD FOR PRODUCING EMULSIFIED GEL, PROCESSED MEAT-LIKE FOOD PRODUCT, AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING PROCESSED MEAT-LIKE FOOD PRODUCT | LI, CHANGQING | 1791 | §103Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 10, 2024 |
| 18823976 | PACKAGED FISH MEAT, FROZEN MINCED FISH MEAT, AND METHOD FOR PREVENTING AGGLUTINATION OF FROZEN MINCED FISH MEAT | LEBLANC, KATHERINE DEGUIRE | 1791 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 04, 2024 |
| 18429543 | PRODUCTION METHOD FOR TEXTURED VEGETABLE PROTEIN COMPOSITE FOOD, AND TEXTURED VEGETABLE PROTEIN COMPOSITE FOOD | SILVERMAN, JANICE Y | 1792 | §103 | Final Rejection | 70d | Pending | Feb 01, 2024 |
| 18276468 | PRODUCTION METHOD FOR PROTEIN PROCESSED FOOD, PRODUCTION DEVICE FOR PROTEIN PROCESSED FOOD, AND PROTEIN PROCESSED FOOD | THROWER, LARRY W | 1754 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | 16d overdue | Pending | Aug 09, 2023 |
| 18230530 | Very Long Chain Polyunsaturated Fatty Acid Composition | CARR, DEBORAH D | 1691 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 04, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialNissui Corporation has 7 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 5 art units and 6 examiners.
Changqing Li has the most, with 2 of Nissui Corporation's pending office actions.
Mostly Chemistry & Materials (USPTO Tech Center 1700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
