Technology areas: Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals • Chemistry & Materials
8 pending office actions • 8 art units • 8 examiners • 0 of 8 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 9 patents granted in the last 365 days
Osaka Gas Co. Ltd. has 8 pending office actions in Chemistry & Materials. These matters are distributed across 8 distinct examiners and 8 distinct art units. SMITH, JEREMIAH R is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending office action. The high degree of fragmentation, with 8 pending office actions in separate art units, suggests a wide variety of technical subject matter.
The parity between 8 pending office actions and 8 distinct examiners means that the company's prosecution results are not dependent on any single official's tendencies. SMITH, JEREMIAH R is the busiest examiner with 1 pending office action, which is the standard workload across this portfolio. With 8 distinct art units involved, the company must navigate eight different sets of examiner expectations and technical standards.
This broad distribution across 8 distinct art units indicates that the Chemistry & Materials portfolio is technically diverse and lacks a single point of concentration at the USPTO. Each official is handling exactly one action, ensuring independent reviews for each application. Practitioners should prepare for varied feedback across the different technical groups. A versatile strategy is necessary to address the unique procedural nuances of each individual art unit.
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 | 5 (62%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 1 (12%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (25%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| SMITH, JEREMIAH R | 1 | 58.1% | +24.8% |
| DIAZ, MATTHEW R | 1 | 54.1% | +42.9% |
| CREPEAU, JONATHAN | 1 | 73.2% | +17.4% |
| SIMKINS, SLONE ELIZABETH | 1 | 52.8% | +51.5% |
| CHANG, KYUNG SOOK | 1 | 60.5% | +40.8% |
| KELLY-O'NEILL, YOLANDA LYNNETTE | 1 | 31.8% | +23.7% |
| TURNER, FELICIA C | 1 | 26.2% | +30.2% |
| BILLIET, AMANDA JUNE | 1 | 54.9% | +19.0% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17794792 | OIL AND FAT COMPOSITION CONTAINING 3-HYDROXYBUTYRIC ACID | TURNER, FELICIA C | 128d overdue |
| 18284330 | Absorption Refrigeration Cycle and Compression-Absorption Refrigeration Cycle | DIAZ, MATTHEW R | — |
| 18283110 | Method for Producing Reverse Water-Gas Shift Catalyst, Reverse Water-Gas Shift Catalyst, Electrolysis Reaction System, Hydrocarbon Production System, and Method for Using Reverse Water-Gas Shift Catalyst | SIMKINS, SLONE ELIZABETH | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17794792 | OIL AND FAT COMPOSITION CONTAINING 3-HYDROXYBUTYRIC ACID | TURNER, FELICIA C | 128d overdue |
| 18487167 | Substrate with Electrode Layer for Metal-Supported Electrochemical Element, Electrochemical Element, Electrochemical Module, Solid Oxide Fuel Cell and Manufacturing Method | CREPEAU, JONATHAN | 38d overdue |
| 17928003 | 3-HYDROXYBUTYRIC-ACID-CONTAINING OIL AND FAT COMPOSITION | CHANG, KYUNG SOOK | 34d |
| 18646833 | Method for Manufacturing Metal Plate | SMITH, JEREMIAH R | 75d |
| 18284330 | Absorption Refrigeration Cycle and Compression-Absorption Refrigeration Cycle | DIAZ, MATTHEW R | — |
| 18283110 | Method for Producing Reverse Water-Gas Shift Catalyst, Reverse Water-Gas Shift Catalyst, Electrolysis Reaction System, Hydrocarbon Production System, and Method for Using Reverse Water-Gas Shift Catalyst | SIMKINS, SLONE ELIZABETH | — |
| 17913534 | Reverse Water-Gas Shift Catalyst, Electrolytic Reaction System, Hydrocarbon Production System, and Production Method and Use Method Therefor | KELLY-O'NEILL, YOLANDA LYNNETTE | — |
| 17333860 | Electrochemical Element, Electrochemical Module, Electrochemical Device, and Energy System | BILLIET, AMANDA JUNE | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1723 | 1 |
| 1761 | 1 |
| 1725 | 1 |
| 1735 | 1 |
| 1613 | 1 |
| 1692 | 1 |
| 1793 | 1 |
| 1729 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18646833 | Method for Manufacturing Metal Plate | SMITH, JEREMIAH R | 1723 | §103 | Final Rejection | 75d | Pending | Apr 26, 2024 |
| 18284330 | Absorption Refrigeration Cycle and Compression-Absorption Refrigeration Cycle | DIAZ, MATTHEW R | 1761 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 05, 2024 |
| 18487167 | Substrate with Electrode Layer for Metal-Supported Electrochemical Element, Electrochemical Element, Electrochemical Module, Solid Oxide Fuel Cell and Manufacturing Method | CREPEAU, JONATHAN | 1725 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 38d overdue | Pending | Oct 16, 2023 |
| 18283110 | Method for Producing Reverse Water-Gas Shift Catalyst, Reverse Water-Gas Shift Catalyst, Electrolysis Reaction System, Hydrocarbon Production System, and Method for Using Reverse Water-Gas Shift Catalyst | SIMKINS, SLONE ELIZABETH | 1735 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 20, 2023 |
| 17928003 | 3-HYDROXYBUTYRIC-ACID-CONTAINING OIL AND FAT COMPOSITION | CHANG, KYUNG SOOK | 1613 | §103DP | Non-Final OA | 34d | Pending | Nov 28, 2022 |
| 17913534 | Reverse Water-Gas Shift Catalyst, Electrolytic Reaction System, Hydrocarbon Production System, and Production Method and Use Method Therefor | KELLY-O'NEILL, YOLANDA LYNNETTE | 1692 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 22, 2022 |
| 17794792 | OIL AND FAT COMPOSITION CONTAINING 3-HYDROXYBUTYRIC ACID | TURNER, FELICIA C | 1793 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 128d overdue | Pending | Jul 22, 2022 |
| 17333860 | Electrochemical Element, Electrochemical Module, Electrochemical Device, and Energy System | BILLIET, AMANDA JUNE | 1729 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 28, 2021 |
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Start Free TrialOsaka Gas Co. Ltd. has 8 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 8 art units and 8 examiners.
Jeremiah R Smith has the most, with 1 of Osaka Gas Co. Ltd.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Chemistry & Materials (USPTO Tech Center 1700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
