Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
957 pending office actions • 279 art units • 739 examiners • 0 of 957 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1,457 patents granted in the last 365 days
Panasonic Holdings Corporation manages a massive portfolio of 965 pending office actions in the Chemistry & Materials technology area. These actions are spread across 217 distinct art units, illustrating the vast technical range of the company's chemical and material science innovations. The involvement of 737 distinct examiners indicates a highly decentralized prosecution environment, where the company must interface with a large portion of the USPTO's examining corps.
HIGGINS, KATHERINE NICOLE is the busiest examiner for this portfolio, with 7 pending office actions currently under review. While 7 actions is the highest count for any single examiner, it represents only a small fraction of the 965 total pending actions. This highlights how broadly the company's work is dispersed, as 737 distinct examiners are involved in the overall prosecution of these chemistry and materials cases.
The distribution of 965 pending office actions across 217 distinct art units shows that the company's research is technically diverse. Managing such a large volume of work across so many units and 737 examiners requires a strategy that can maintain consistency while addressing hundreds of different examiner behaviors. With HIGGINS, KATHERINE NICOLE handling 7 actions, the company's success depends on its ability to effectively manage a vast array of individual examiner relationships across the USPTO.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 194 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. 194 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 |
|---|---|
| §101 only | 21 (2%) |
| §101 + other | 94 (10%) |
| §103 only | 385 (40%) |
| §102 only | 57 (6%) |
| §112 only | 15 (2%) |
| Double-patenting only | 21 (2%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 17 (2%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 347 (36%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| HIGGINS, KATHERINE NICOLE | 6 | 62.5% | +24.3% |
| KASS-MULLET, BENJAMIN ELI | 6 | 71.4% | +6.3% |
| ZEMUI, NATHANAEL T | 5 | 55.9% | +23.7% |
| PATEL, SUHANI JITENDRA | 5 | 61.1% | +11.1% |
| ESTES, JONATHAN WILLIAM | 5 | 69.0% | +6.5% |
| GRANNUM, VERITA EUDORA EBUN | 5 | 60.0% | +44.4% |
| NGUYEN, LEON VIET Q | 4 | 85.3% | +9.9% |
| MCNULTY, SEAMUS PATRICK | 4 | 42.9% | +32.1% |
| GARCIA, BETHANY CLAIRE | 4 | 66.7% | +34.5% |
| CULLEN, SEAN P | 4 | 69.1% | +28.0% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18573348 | FACIAL RECOGNITION DEVICE AND FACIAL RECOGNITION METHOD | NGUYEN, LEON VIET Q | 12d |
| 18290660 | LEARNING DEVICE, LEARNING METHOD, AND NONDESTRUCTIVE INSPECTION SYSTEM | NGUYEN, LEON VIET Q | 20d |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 8 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17805456 | INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM, AND INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD | CHAD, ANISS | 338d overdue |
| 17795809 | NEGATIVE ELECTRODE ACTIVE MATERIAL FOR SECONDARY BATTERIES, AND SECONDARY BATTERY | LUSTGRAAF, BENJAMIN T | 202d overdue |
| 17690836 | MOISTURE SENSING DEVICE | GEISEL, KARA E | 156d overdue |
| 18183223 | ELECTRODE CATALYST INK OF WATER ELECTROLYSIS CELL, ELECTRODE CATALYST, WATER ELECTROLYSIS CELL, AND WATER ELECTROLYZER | RUFO, LOUIS J | 147d overdue |
| 18822372 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS AND INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD | JOSEPH, TONYA S | 146d overdue |
| 18650988 | IMAGING ELEMENT AND RANGING DEVICE | LUU, THANH X | 132d overdue |
| 17318513 | PREDICTION MODEL CONVERSION METHOD AND PREDICTION MODEL CONVERSION SYSTEM | TRAN, AMY NMN | 121d overdue |
| 17520767 | ARC WELDING METHOD AND ARC WELDING DEVICE | THONG, YEONG JUEN | 87d overdue |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17441235 | POWER STORAGE DEVICE | HIGGINS, KATHERINE NICOLE | 72d overdue |
| 18139571 | ELECTRODE LAMINATE MANUFACTURING METHOD, ALL-SOLID-STATE BATTERY MANUFACTURING METHOD, ELECTRODE LAMINATE, AND ALL-SOLID-STATE BATTERY | PATEL, SUHANI JITENDRA | 9d overdue |
| 17786820 | SECONDARY BATTERY AND PRODUCTION METHOD FOR SAME | GARCIA, BETHANY CLAIRE | 4d overdue |
| 18267359 | POSITIVE ELECTRODE ACTIVE MATERIAL FOR NONAQUEOUS ELECTROLYTE SECONDARY BATTERIES, AND NONAQUEOUS ELECTROLYTE SECONDARY BATTERY | PATEL, SUHANI JITENDRA | 9d |
| 18277190 | NEGATIVE ELECTRODE FOR NONAQUEOUS ELECTROLYTE SECONDARY BATTERIES, AND NONAQUEOUS ELECTROLYTE SECONDARY BATTERY | GARCIA, BETHANY CLAIRE | 9d |
| 18028887 | LITHIUM SECONDARY BATTERY | PATEL, SUHANI JITENDRA | 34d |
| 17659774 | MAGNESIUM SECONDARY BATTERY AND NON-AQUEOUS ELECTROLYTE SOLUTION FOR MAGNESIUM SECONDARY BATTERY | ZEMUI, NATHANAEL T | 42d |
| 17913761 | NON-AQUEOUS ELECTROLYTE SECONDARY BATTERY | GRANNUM, VERITA EUDORA EBUN | 54d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1725 | 33 |
| 1728 | 31 |
| 1727 | 25 |
| 1723 | 25 |
| 1751 | 24 |
| 1721 | 18 |
| 1752 | 17 |
| 1729 | 15 |
| 2847 | 14 |
| 3761 | 14 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19444716 | INPUT DEVICE AND CONTROL METHOD FOR CONTROLLING INPUT DEVICE | SHAH, PRIYANK J | 2626 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 09, 2026 |
| 19392622 | DISPLAY SYSTEM | LAM, NELSON C | 2627 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 18, 2025 |
| 19331695 | VEHICULAR CAMERA | BEASLEY, DEIRDRE L | 2482 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 17, 2025 |
| 19294618 | DRIVING ASSISTANCE APPARATUS, DRIVING ASSISTANCE METHOD, AND RECORDING MEDIUM STORING DRIVING ASSISTANCE PROGRAM AND READABLE BY COMPUTER | WILSON, BRIAN P | 2689 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 08, 2025 |
| 19293946 | VEHICLE CONTROL METHOD AND VEHICLE CONTROL DEVICE | TAN, OLIVER E | 3669 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 07, 2025 |
| 19230781 | INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM, INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, AND INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD | MARC, MCDIEUNEL | 3656 | §102Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 06, 2025 |
| 19205118 | INFORMATION PRESENTATION SYSTEM AND INFORMATION PRESENTATION METHOD | SARWAR, BABAR | — | §101§102 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | May 12, 2025 |
| 19082956 | CHAIR, VIBRATOR, AND MOVABLE OBJECT | WHITE, RODNEY BARNETT | 3636 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 18, 2025 |
| 19081863 | HEAD-UP DISPLAY | GAGNON, GRANT A | 2872 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 17, 2025 |
| 19081501 | INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM AND INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD | BROWN, ANTHONY D | 2408 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 17, 2025 |
| 19079077 | INFORMATION MANAGEMENT SYSTEM, INFORMATION MANAGEMENT METHOD, AND RECORDING MEDIUM | MAAZOUZ, GHIZLANE | 2499 | §101§102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 13, 2025 |
| 19076813 | SONAR APPARATUS AND OBJECT DETECTION METHOD | BREIER, KRYSTINE E | 3645 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 11, 2025 |
| 19075290 | VEHICLE CONTROL METHOD AND VEHICLE CONTROL DEVICE | MOSCOLA, MATTHEW JOHN | 3663 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 10, 2025 |
| 19070049 | OBJECT DETECTION APPARATUS AND METHOD OF DETECTING OBJECT | BREIER, KRYSTINE E | 3645 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 04, 2025 |
| 19064330 | VEHICLE CONTROL METHOD AND VEHICLE CONTROL DEVICE | REINBOLD, SCOTT A | 3747 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 26, 2025 |
| 19056031 | DISPLAY CONTROL SYSTEM AND DISPLAY CONTROL METHOD | BEARD, CHARLES LLOYD | 2611 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 18, 2025 |
| 19056377 | OBJECT DETERMINATION APPARATUS AND OBJECT DETERMINATION METHOD | ATMAKURI, VIKAS NMN | 3645 | §101§102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 18, 2025 |
| 19056292 | DISPLAY CONTROL SYSTEM AND DISPLAY CONTROL METHOD | SUO, JOSHUA JUNGWOOK | 2616 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 18, 2025 |
| 19054269 | DISPLAY DEVICE AND OPTICAL MEMBER | JHA, ABDHESH K | 3668 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 14, 2025 |
| 19049702 | NOTIFICATION DEVICE, NOTIFICATION METHOD, AND RECORDING MEDIUM | WILSON, BRIAN P | 2689 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Feb 10, 2025 |
| 19043026 | ELECTRIC LEAKAGE DETECTION CIRCUIT | PATEL, PARESH H | 2858 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 31, 2025 |
| 19038168 | RADAR APPARATUS, RADAR SIGNAL GENERATING APPARATUS, AND RADAR SIGNAL GENERATING METHOD | LE, HAILEY R | 3648 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 27, 2025 |
| 19029738 | PARKING ASSISTANCE DEVICE AND PARKING ASSISTANCE METHOD | PATEL, MANGLESH M | 3665 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 17, 2025 |
| 19029894 | DRIVING ASSISTANCE SYSTEM AND DRIVING ASSISTANCE METHOD | PALMARCHUK, BRIAN KEITH | 3669 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jan 17, 2025 |
| 19025480 | DRIVING ASSISTANCE APPARATUS, DRIVING ASSISTANCE SYSTEM, AND DRIVING ASSISTANCE METHOD | GASCA ALVA JR, MOISES | 3667 | §101§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jan 16, 2025 |
| 19022298 | DISPLAY CONTROL DEVICE AND CONTROL METHOD | CASCHERA, ANTONIO A | 2612 | §102 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jan 15, 2025 |
| 19019050 | RADAR APPARATUS, METHOD FOR TRANSMITTING RADAR SIGNAL, AND RADAR SIGNAL PROCESSING APPARATUS | MAKHDOOM, SAMARINA | 3648 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 13, 2025 |
| 19018919 | DISPLAY DEVICE AND LIGHT GUIDE MANUFACTURING METHOD | ALEXANDER, WILLIAM R | 2872 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 13, 2025 |
| 19016703 | INFORMATION PROVISION METHOD AND INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE | WYSZYNSKI, AUBREY H | 2434 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jan 10, 2025 |
| 19015156 | ACTIVE INGREDIENT GENERATION DEVICE | CONLEY, SEAN EVERETT | 1799 | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 09, 2025 |
| 19012447 | PRESENTATION INFORMATION GENERATION APPARATUS AND PRESENTATION INFORMATION GENERATION METHOD | VARNDELL, ROSS E | 2674 | §101§102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 07, 2025 |
| 19011124 | INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND RECORDING MEDIUM | STRYKER, NICHOLAS F | 3665 | §101§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jan 06, 2025 |
| 19009296 | COMMUNICATION DEVICE | AL-TAWEEL, MUAAMAR QAHTAN | 2838 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 03, 2025 |
| 19008138 | PARKING SUPPORT METHOD AND PARKING SUPPORT DEVICE | LI, CE LI | 3661 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jan 02, 2025 |
| 18975865 | RADAR APPARATUS AND TRANSMISSION METHOD | JUSTICE, MICHAEL W | 3648 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 10, 2024 |
| 18970443 | AUDIO PROCESSING DEVICE, AUDIO PROCESSING METHOD, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT | BECKER, TYLER JUSTIN | 2657 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 05, 2024 |
| 18966793 | ONBOARD DEVICE | PAN, JIA X | 2871 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 03, 2024 |
| 18966328 | DISPLAY, DISPLAY SYSTEM, IMAGE PROJECTION SYSTEM, AND MOVABLE OBJECT | CHOWDHURY, SULTAN U. | 2882 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 03, 2024 |
| 18958934 | PARKING ASSISTANCE APPARATUS AND PARKING ASSISTANCE METHOD | SILVA, MICHAEL THOMAS | 3663 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Nov 25, 2024 |
| 18958798 | EVALUATION DEVICE AND EVALUATION METHOD | LIN, KATHERINE Y | 2113 | §101 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Nov 25, 2024 |
| 18954149 | POWER CONVERSION DEVICE | ROSARIO BENITEZ, GUSTAVO A | 2838 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 20, 2024 |
| 18937686 | INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, ANOMALY DETERMINATION METHOD, AND INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE | ZAIDI, SYED A | 2432 | §102 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Nov 05, 2024 |
| 18930577 | PARKING SUPPORT METHOD AND PARKING SUPPORT DEVICE | LI, CE LI | 3661 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | 28d overdue | Pending | Oct 29, 2024 |
| 18930488 | PARKING SUPPORT METHOD AND PARKING SUPPORT DEVICE | LI, CE LI | 3661 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 29, 2024 |
| 18923245 | RADAR APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR TRANSMISSION AND RECEPTION BY RADAR APPARATUS | JUSTICE, MICHAEL W | 3648 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 22, 2024 |
| 18918865 | DISPLAY CONTROL METHOD | CROMER, ANDREW J | 3667 | §101§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 17, 2024 |
| 18917437 | DRIVING ASSISTANCE DEVICE, DRIVING ASSISTANCE METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM WITH DRIVING ASSISTANCE PROGRAM RECORDED THEREON | ROBERT, DANIEL M | 3665 | §112 | Non-Final OA | 27d | Pending | Oct 16, 2024 |
| 18913208 | BEHAVIOR SUGGESTION DEVICE AND BEHAVIOR SUGGESTION METHOD | SMITH, JORDAN T | 3666 | §101§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 11, 2024 |
| 18896628 | RADAR APPARATUS AND RADAR SIGNAL PROCESSING METHOD | HALLORAN, THOMAS JAMES | 3648 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 25, 2024 |
| 18893359 | MOBILE ENTITY CONTROL DEVICE, AND MOBILE ENTITY CONTROL METHOD | TISSOT, ADAM D | 3663 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 4d overdue | Pending | Sep 23, 2024 |
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Start Free TrialPanasonic Holdings Corporation has 957 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 279 art units and 739 examiners.
Katherine Nicole Higgins has the most, with 6 of Panasonic Holdings Corporation's pending office actions.
Mostly Chemistry & Materials (USPTO Tech Center 1700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.