Technology areas: Chemistry & Materials • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
3 pending office actions • 3 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 8 patents granted in the last 365 days
Noritake Co., Limited has 3 pending office actions in Chemistry & Materials. The matters are assigned to 3 distinct examiners and 3 distinct art units, indicating fully separate examination settings. Counsel should maintain a consistent technical vocabulary and support position, but each response must address its own examiner’s treatment of the claimed chemistry or materials subject matter.
VO, HAI is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending matter. The docket is distributed rather than concentrated, making centralized issue tracking more useful than reliance on a single examiner approach. Careful separation of composition, structure, manufacturing process, and supported property arguments can help keep amendments precise across the applications.
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 (67%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (33%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| VO, HAI | 1 | 57.1% | +72.5% |
| RIVERA, CARLOS A | 1 | 77.4% | +28.9% |
| COHEN, STEFANIE J | 1 | 75.5% | +2.5% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18724774 | DRESSER FOR POLISHING PAD, DRESSING METHOD, POLISHING METHOD, AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING WORKPIECE | RIVERA, CARLOS A | — |
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 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18845035 | POLISHING PAD, POLISHING PAD MANUFACTURING METHOD, AND WAFER POLISHING METHOD | VO, HAI | — |
| 18724774 | DRESSER FOR POLISHING PAD, DRESSING METHOD, POLISHING METHOD, AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING WORKPIECE | RIVERA, CARLOS A | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1788 | 1 |
| 3723 | 1 |
| 1732 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18845035 | POLISHING PAD, POLISHING PAD MANUFACTURING METHOD, AND WAFER POLISHING METHOD | VO, HAI | 1788 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 09, 2024 |
| 18724774 | DRESSER FOR POLISHING PAD, DRESSING METHOD, POLISHING METHOD, AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING WORKPIECE | RIVERA, CARLOS A | 3723 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 27, 2024 |
| 18687724 | CERAMIC PRODUCT | COHEN, STEFANIE J | 1732 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 28, 2024 |
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Start Free TrialNoritake Co., Limited has 3 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 3 art units and 3 examiners.
Hai Vo has the most, with 1 of Noritake Co., Limited's pending office actions.
Mostly Chemistry & Materials (USPTO Tech Center 1700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
