Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
7 pending office actions • 5 art units • 7 examiners • 0 of 7 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
NITTA Corporation currently has 7 pending office actions within the Chemistry & Materials technology area. These matters are distributed among 7 distinct examiners, which means that each examiner is handling exactly 1 matter. This distribution indicates that the company's prosecution is not concentrated with any single individual, requiring coordination across 7 different examiner perspectives within the Chemistry & Materials sector.
The portfolio is spread across 5 distinct art units, showing that the company's chemical innovations fall into several different technical categories. CARSON GROSS is the busiest examiner for the portfolio, currently overseeing 1 pending office action. Since there are 7 distinct examiners for 7 pending office actions, CARSON GROSS holds the same number of cases as every other examiner involved. The use of 5 distinct art units for these pending office actions suggests a high degree of technical variety in the company's current filings.
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 | 5 (71%) |
| §112 only | 1 (14%) |
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| GROSS, CARSON | 1 | 73.1% | +21.3% |
| MCNALLY, DANIEL | 1 | 68.0% | +13.6% |
| DUNLAP, JONATHAN M | 1 | 76.2% | +17.0% |
| MATZEK, MATTHEW D | 1 | 46.3% | +36.8% |
| JOYNER, KEVIN | 1 | 68.3% | +23.6% |
| LEE, AHAM NMN | 1 | 46.3% | +54.5% |
| HENSEL, BRENDAN A | 1 | 66.1% | +27.7% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19120325 | ADHESIVE WITH PRESSURE REGULATION FUNCTION | GROSS, CARSON | — |
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 7 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18029744 | DECONTAMINATION APPARATUS AND DECONTAMINATION METHOD | LEE, AHAM NMN | 89d overdue |
| 18254928 | COMPOSITE MATERIAL, METHOD FOR PRODUCING SAME, AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING REINFORCING FIBER BASE MATERIAL | MATZEK, MATTHEW D | 70d overdue |
| 17600333 | DECONTAMINATION DEVICE AND SYSTEM | HENSEL, BRENDAN A | 23d overdue |
| 19120325 | ADHESIVE WITH PRESSURE REGULATION FUNCTION | GROSS, CARSON | — |
| 18879855 | WINDOW MATERIAL AND LIGHT-TRANSPARENT ROOF MATERIAL | MCNALLY, DANIEL | — |
| 18281984 | PRESSURE SENSOR | DUNLAP, JONATHAN M | — |
| 18029790 | DECONTAMINATION METHOD | JOYNER, KEVIN | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1746 | 2 |
| 1758 | 2 |
| 2855 | 1 |
| 1786 | 1 |
| 1799 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19120325 | ADHESIVE WITH PRESSURE REGULATION FUNCTION | GROSS, CARSON | 1746 | §102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 11, 2025 |
| 18879855 | WINDOW MATERIAL AND LIGHT-TRANSPARENT ROOF MATERIAL | MCNALLY, DANIEL | 1746 | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 30, 2024 |
| 18281984 | PRESSURE SENSOR | DUNLAP, JONATHAN M | 2855 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Sep 14, 2023 |
| 18254928 | COMPOSITE MATERIAL, METHOD FOR PRODUCING SAME, AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING REINFORCING FIBER BASE MATERIAL | MATZEK, MATTHEW D | 1786 | §103 | Final Rejection | 70d overdue | Pending | Jul 06, 2023 |
| 18029790 | DECONTAMINATION METHOD | JOYNER, KEVIN | 1799 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Mar 31, 2023 |
| 18029744 | DECONTAMINATION APPARATUS AND DECONTAMINATION METHOD | LEE, AHAM NMN | 1758 | §103 | Final Rejection | 89d overdue | Pending | Mar 31, 2023 |
| 17600333 | DECONTAMINATION DEVICE AND SYSTEM | HENSEL, BRENDAN A | 1758 | §103 | Final Rejection | 23d overdue | Pending | Sep 30, 2021 |
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