Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Osaka Gas Chemicals Co. Ltd. has 2 pending office actions in Chemistry & Materials. The matters are assigned to 2 distinct examiners and 2 distinct art units, indicating separate examination channels across the active portfolio. The matching figures show that each identified action is associated with a different examiner and art unit.
HEINCER, LIAM J is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending matter. The pending activity is divided between examiners rather than concentrated with this examiner. Counsel should prepare matter-specific responses while coordinating chemistry and materials terminology where the applications share relevant technical concepts.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 1 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| HEINCER, LIAM J | 1 | 55.8% | +26.0% |
| HENDRICKSON, STUART L | 1 | 72.4% | +8.1% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18280654 | PHASE DIFFERENCE FILM | HEINCER, LIAM J | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1767 | 1 |
| 1736 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18280654 | PHASE DIFFERENCE FILM | HEINCER, LIAM J | 1767 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Sep 06, 2023 |
| 17775811 | MOLECULAR SIEVE ACTIVATED CARBON | HENDRICKSON, STUART L | 1736 | §103 | Final Rejection | 22d overdue | Pending | May 10, 2022 |
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Start Free TrialOsaka Gas Chemicals Co. Ltd. has 2 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 2 art units and 2 examiners.
Liam J Heincer has the most, with 1 of Osaka Gas Chemicals Co. Ltd.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Chemistry & Materials (USPTO Tech Center 1700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
