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
Osaka Organic Chemical Industry Ltd. has 2 pending office actions in the Chemistry & Materials technology area. These actions are handled by 2 distinct examiners, which distributes the workload across different reviewers. This ensures that the company's current patenting efforts are not overly dependent on the discretion of a single individual within the patent office. For the practitioner, this distribution provides a more varied experience and reduces the risk associated with a single examiner's strictness.
The matters are spread across 2 distinct art units. CHEN, VIVIAN is the busiest examiner, responsible for 1 pending office action. This distribution shows that the company's 2 pending cases are being examined independently by different staff in different technical divisions. This requires a flexible approach to prosecution, as the two active matters are subject to the standards and interpretations of two separate art units. The lack of concentration suggests that the company's current filings cover a range of chemical applications rather than a single narrow niche.
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 | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| CHEN, VIVIAN | 1 | 56.6% | +28.5% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18701293 | RESIN COMPOSITION, WATER-SWELLABLE FILM, ARTICLE COVERED WITH WATER-SWELLABLE FILM, AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING WATER-SWELLABLE FILM | CHEN, VIVIAN | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1787 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18701293 | RESIN COMPOSITION, WATER-SWELLABLE FILM, ARTICLE COVERED WITH WATER-SWELLABLE FILM, AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING WATER-SWELLABLE FILM | CHEN, VIVIAN | 1787 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 15, 2024 |
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Start Free TrialOsaka Organic Chemical Industry Ltd. has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Vivian Chen has the most, with 1 of Osaka Organic Chemical Industry Ltd.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Chemistry & Materials (USPTO Tech Center 1700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
