Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Nobuyuki Nishi has 2 pending office actions in Chemistry & Materials. The actions are assigned to 2 examiners and 2 art units.
PIERCE, JEREMY R is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending matter. The distribution indicates two separate examination paths, making application-specific analysis more useful than a single uniform response approach.
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 (100%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| PIERCE, JEREMY R | 1 | 56.8% | +42.8% |
| MCCLAIN, STARFARI TESHAWN | 1 | 91.2% | -12.5% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18615024 | CARBON MATERIAL FOR CATALYST SUPPORT AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING CARBON MATERIAL FOR CATALYST SUPPORT | MCCLAIN, STARFARI TESHAWN | — |
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 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18614930 | METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING POROUS CARBON SHEET AND POROUS CARBON SHEET | PIERCE, JEREMY R | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1789 | 1 |
| 1736 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18614930 | METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING POROUS CARBON SHEET AND POROUS CARBON SHEET | PIERCE, JEREMY R | 1789 | §103Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 25, 2024 |
| 18615024 | CARBON MATERIAL FOR CATALYST SUPPORT AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING CARBON MATERIAL FOR CATALYST SUPPORT | MCCLAIN, STARFARI TESHAWN | 1736 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 25, 2024 |
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Start Free TrialNobuyuki Nishi has 2 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 2 art units and 2 examiners.
Jeremy R Pierce has the most, with 1 of Nobuyuki Nishi's pending office actions.
Mostly Chemistry & Materials (USPTO Tech Center 1700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
