Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
10 pending office actions • 6 art units • 10 examiners • 0 of 10 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 11 patents granted in the last 365 days
Oji Holdings Corporation currently has 9 pending office actions within the Chemistry & Materials technology area. These actions are distributed among 9 distinct examiners and 5 distinct art units. The high number of examiners relative to art units suggests multiple parallel reviews within the same technical departments. This distribution requires the company to manage 9 separate examiner relationships across 5 different art units, indicating a broad and active prosecution phase.
RAMSEY E ZACHARIA is the busiest examiner, though they only hold 1 pending office action. Because there are 9 pending actions and 9 distinct examiners, every examiner is responsible for exactly 1 case. This distribution means the company must coordinate with a different individual for every active office action in its portfolio. Managing 9 distinct examiners while staying within 5 art units requires a strategy that balances individual examiner preferences with the broader technical standards of those units. The presence of 9 pending actions indicates a significant volume of work within the Chemistry & Materials sector, spread across multiple technical sub-groups and administrative departments.
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 (50%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 1 (10%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 4 (40%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ZACHARIA, RAMSEY E | 1 | 78.5% | +28.7% |
| AHMED, SHEEBA | 1 | 80.7% | +14.4% |
| VERA, ELISA H | 1 | 72.2% | +26.5% |
| HIGGINS, GERARD T | 1 | 63.3% | +39.4% |
| DILLON, DANIEL P | 1 | 26.2% | +29.9% |
| KESSLER JR, THOMAS JOSEPH | 1 | 45.9% | +47.5% |
| WEYDEMEYER, ALICIA JANE | 1 | 46.2% | +27.7% |
| CARREON, ADRIAN JOHN | 1 | 100.0% | +0.0% |
| MINSKEY, JACOB T | 1 | 69.3% | +33.1% |
| UTT, ETHAN A | 1 | 47.8% | +41.2% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18546584 | CELL MASS-FORMING MEMBER, CULTURE VESSEL, METHOD FOR PRODUCING CULTURED CELLS, AND CULTURED CELLS WITH CELL MASS-FORMING MEMBER | CARREON, ADRIAN JOHN | — |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 5 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18287724 | HEAT-SEALABLE PAPER AND PACKAGING BAG | KESSLER JR, THOMAS JOSEPH | 19d overdue |
| 18874157 | HEAT-SEALABLE PAPER AND PACKAGING BAG | AHMED, SHEEBA | — |
| 18710668 | MEDIUM FOR ULTRAVIOLET LASER PRINTING, PRINTED MATERIAL, AND PROCESSED ARTICLE | HIGGINS, GERARD T | — |
| 18704637 | FIBER AGGREGATE FOR MOLDING | DILLON, DANIEL P | — |
| 18269098 | LAMINATE AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING LAMINATE | UTT, ETHAN 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 8 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18727536 | PULP FOR GLASS INTERLEAVING PAPER, GLASS INTERLEAVING PAPER, AND PRODUCTION METHOD THEREFOR | VERA, ELISA H | 46d overdue |
| 18287724 | HEAT-SEALABLE PAPER AND PACKAGING BAG | KESSLER JR, THOMAS JOSEPH | 19d overdue |
| 18276708 | SHEET AND LAYERED BODY | MINSKEY, JACOB T | 9d overdue |
| 18994352 | MULTILAYER BODY AND PAPER PROCESSED ARTICLE USING SAME | ZACHARIA, RAMSEY E | — |
| 18874157 | HEAT-SEALABLE PAPER AND PACKAGING BAG | AHMED, SHEEBA | — |
| 18710668 | MEDIUM FOR ULTRAVIOLET LASER PRINTING, PRINTED MATERIAL, AND PROCESSED ARTICLE | HIGGINS, GERARD T | — |
| 18704637 | FIBER AGGREGATE FOR MOLDING | DILLON, DANIEL P | — |
| 18281239 | FILM SUITABLE FOR CAPACITOR USE | WEYDEMEYER, ALICIA JANE | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1748 | 2 |
| 1783 | 2 |
| 1787 | 1 |
| 1782 | 1 |
| 1781 | 1 |
| 1638 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18994352 | MULTILAYER BODY AND PAPER PROCESSED ARTICLE USING SAME | ZACHARIA, RAMSEY E | — | §103DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 14, 2025 |
| 18874157 | HEAT-SEALABLE PAPER AND PACKAGING BAG | AHMED, SHEEBA | 1787 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 12, 2024 |
| 18727536 | PULP FOR GLASS INTERLEAVING PAPER, GLASS INTERLEAVING PAPER, AND PRODUCTION METHOD THEREFOR | VERA, ELISA H | 1748 | §103 | Final Rejection | 46d overdue | Pending | Jul 09, 2024 |
| 18710668 | MEDIUM FOR ULTRAVIOLET LASER PRINTING, PRINTED MATERIAL, AND PROCESSED ARTICLE | HIGGINS, GERARD T | — | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 16, 2024 |
| 18704637 | FIBER AGGREGATE FOR MOLDING | DILLON, DANIEL P | 1783 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 25, 2024 |
| 18287724 | HEAT-SEALABLE PAPER AND PACKAGING BAG | KESSLER JR, THOMAS JOSEPH | 1782 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 19d overdue | Pending | Oct 20, 2023 |
| 18281239 | FILM SUITABLE FOR CAPACITOR USE | WEYDEMEYER, ALICIA JANE | 1781 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 08, 2023 |
| 18546584 | CELL MASS-FORMING MEMBER, CULTURE VESSEL, METHOD FOR PRODUCING CULTURED CELLS, AND CULTURED CELLS WITH CELL MASS-FORMING MEMBER | CARREON, ADRIAN JOHN | 1638 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 15, 2023 |
| 18276708 | SHEET AND LAYERED BODY | MINSKEY, JACOB T | 1748 | §103 | Final Rejection | 9d overdue | Pending | Aug 10, 2023 |
| 18269098 | LAMINATE AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING LAMINATE | UTT, ETHAN A | 1783 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 22, 2023 |
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