Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
11 pending office actions • 4 art units • 4 examiners • 0 of 11 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 6 patents granted in the last 365 days
Ohara Inc. has 12 pending office actions in Chemistry & Materials. The portfolio includes 5 distinct examiners and 5 distinct art units, so the actions are concentrated across a smaller set of recurring examination assignments. This structure supports identifying shared examination patterns while preserving matter-level review.
COLGAN, LAUREN ROBINSON is the busiest examiner, with 8 pending matters. The examiner handles a substantial portion of the pending portfolio, making that examiner's action history particularly relevant to consistency in claim amendments, cited references, and response positions.
The difference between pending actions and distinct examiners indicates that multiple matters are assigned to the same examiner. The same pattern appears at the art unit level, which may allow counsel to develop focused art unit and examiner playbooks for chemistry and materials prosecution.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 4 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. 4 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 | 2 (18%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 5 (45%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 4 (36%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| COLGAN, LAUREN ROBINSON | 8 | 69.8% | +16.2% |
| RUMMEL, IAN A | 1 | 56.8% | +18.4% |
| SUN, MICHAEL Y | 1 | 57.4% | +26.3% |
| AUER, LAURA A | 1 | 49.9% | +34.2% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 4 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18026824 | CRYSTALLIZED GLASS AND REINFORCED CRYSTALLIZED GLASS | COLGAN, LAUREN ROBINSON | 9d overdue |
| 18994649 | INORGANIC COMPOSITION ARTICLE | COLGAN, LAUREN ROBINSON | — |
| 18994658 | INORGANIC COMPOSITION ARTICLE | RUMMEL, IAN A | — |
| 18284337 | LITHIUM-ION-CONDUCTIVE MATERIAL | SUN, MICHAEL Y | — |
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 8 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18686875 | CHEMICALLY STRENGTHENED OPTICAL GLASS | COLGAN, LAUREN ROBINSON | 53d overdue |
| 18834606 | INORGANIC COMPOSITION ARTICLE | COLGAN, LAUREN ROBINSON | 29d overdue |
| 18026824 | CRYSTALLIZED GLASS AND REINFORCED CRYSTALLIZED GLASS | COLGAN, LAUREN ROBINSON | 9d overdue |
| 18011187 | REINFORCED CRYSTALLIZED GLASS | AUER, LAURA A | 2d overdue |
| 18994649 | INORGANIC COMPOSITION ARTICLE | COLGAN, LAUREN ROBINSON | — |
| 18994658 | INORGANIC COMPOSITION ARTICLE | RUMMEL, IAN A | — |
| 18834614 | CRYSTALLIZED INORGANIC COMPOSITION ARTICLE | COLGAN, LAUREN ROBINSON | — |
| 18284337 | LITHIUM-ION-CONDUCTIVE MATERIAL | SUN, MICHAEL Y | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1784 | 8 |
| 1785 | 1 |
| 1728 | 1 |
| 1783 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18994649 | INORGANIC COMPOSITION ARTICLE | COLGAN, LAUREN ROBINSON | 1784 | §102§103Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 15, 2025 |
| 18994658 | INORGANIC COMPOSITION ARTICLE | RUMMEL, IAN A | 1785 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 15, 2025 |
| 18834606 | INORGANIC COMPOSITION ARTICLE | COLGAN, LAUREN ROBINSON | 1784 | §103DP | Final Rejection | 29d overdue | Pending | Jul 30, 2024 |
| 18834614 | CRYSTALLIZED INORGANIC COMPOSITION ARTICLE | COLGAN, LAUREN ROBINSON | 1784 | §102§112DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 30, 2024 |
| 18686875 | CHEMICALLY STRENGTHENED OPTICAL GLASS | COLGAN, LAUREN ROBINSON | 1784 | §103DP | Non-Final OA | 53d overdue | Pending | Feb 27, 2024 |
| 18284337 | LITHIUM-ION-CONDUCTIVE MATERIAL | SUN, MICHAEL Y | 1728 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 27, 2023 |
| 18026824 | CRYSTALLIZED GLASS AND REINFORCED CRYSTALLIZED GLASS | COLGAN, LAUREN ROBINSON | 1784 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 9d overdue | Pending | Mar 16, 2023 |
| 18024490 | CRYSTALLIZED GLASS AND REINFORCED CRYSTALLIZED GLASS | COLGAN, LAUREN ROBINSON | 1784 | §103DP | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Mar 02, 2023 |
| 18024491 | INORGANIC COMPOSITION ARTICLE | COLGAN, LAUREN ROBINSON | 1784 | §103DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 02, 2023 |
| 18011187 | REINFORCED CRYSTALLIZED GLASS | AUER, LAURA A | 1783 | §103 | Final Rejection | 2d overdue | Pending | Dec 18, 2022 |
| 17913440 | CHEMICALLY STRENGTHENED OPTICAL GLASS | COLGAN, LAUREN ROBINSON | 1784 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 22, 2022 |
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Start Free TrialOhara Inc. has 11 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 4 art units and 4 examiners.
Lauren Robinson Colgan has the most, with 8 of Ohara Inc.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Chemistry & Materials (USPTO Tech Center 1700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
