Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
1 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Okamoto Industries Inc. has a patent portfolio in the Chemistry & Materials technology area. There is currently 1 pending office action for the company. This matter is assigned to 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit, showing a narrow and focused prosecution footprint for the company's chemistry inventions.
The busiest examiner is DILLON, DANIEL P, who handles 1 busiest examiner pending action. This represents the total pending prosecution for the portfolio. For the practitioner, this indicates that the current success of the company's chemistry and materials filings depends on navigating the review process of this one specific examiner. All active intellectual property matters for the company are currently subject to the standards of this single examiner and the specific art unit involved in the Chemistry & Materials sector.
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 |
|---|---|
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| DILLON, DANIEL P | 1 | 26.3% | +30.7% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18855482 | SYNTHETIC RESIN LEATHER AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING SAME | DILLON, DANIEL P | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18855482 | SYNTHETIC RESIN LEATHER AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING SAME | DILLON, DANIEL P | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1783 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18855482 | SYNTHETIC RESIN LEATHER AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING SAME | DILLON, DANIEL P | 1783 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 09, 2024 |
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Start Free TrialOkamoto Industries Inc. has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Daniel P Dillon has the most, with 1 of Okamoto Industries Inc.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Chemistry & Materials (USPTO Tech Center 1700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
