Technology areas: Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals • Chemistry & Materials
5 pending office actions • 4 art units • 5 examiners • 0 of 5 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 12 patents granted in the last 365 days
Sekisui Kasei Co. Ltd. has 5 pending office actions in Chemistry & Materials. The matters involve 5 distinct examiners and 4 distinct art units, showing examiner-level dispersion with some technical-group overlap.
VO, HAI is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending matter. Counsel should tailor responses to each examination assignment and use the shared art-unit context only to inform, not replace, individual analysis.
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 | 4 (80%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (20%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| VO, HAI | 1 | 57.1% | +72.5% |
| COHEN, MICHAEL P | 1 | 58.9% | +27.3% |
| REDDY, KARUNA P | 1 | 42.6% | +10.4% |
| FISCHER, JUSTIN R | 1 | 44.2% | +2.5% |
| KRYLOVA, IRINA | 1 | 36.6% | +48.3% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18851797 | PARTICLE-CONTAINING HYDROGEL | COHEN, MICHAEL 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 4 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18872990 | FOAMED THERMOPLASTIC RESIN PARTICLES, MOLDED BODY OF FOAMED THERMOPLASTIC RESIN PARTICLES, FOAMED RESIN COMPOSITE, METHOD FOR PRODUCING FOAMED THERMOPLASTIC RESIN PARTICLES, AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING MOLDED BODY OF FOAMED THERMOPLASTIC RESIN PARTICLES | VO, HAI | — |
| 18851797 | PARTICLE-CONTAINING HYDROGEL | COHEN, MICHAEL P | — |
| 18644454 | HOLLOW POLYMER PARTICLES AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING SAME | REDDY, KARUNA P | — |
| 18283084 | HOLLOW PARTICLES AND USE THEREOF | KRYLOVA, IRINA | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1764 | 2 |
| 1788 | 1 |
| 1612 | 1 |
| 1749 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18872990 | FOAMED THERMOPLASTIC RESIN PARTICLES, MOLDED BODY OF FOAMED THERMOPLASTIC RESIN PARTICLES, FOAMED RESIN COMPOSITE, METHOD FOR PRODUCING FOAMED THERMOPLASTIC RESIN PARTICLES, AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING MOLDED BODY OF FOAMED THERMOPLASTIC RESIN PARTICLES | VO, HAI | 1788 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Dec 09, 2024 |
| 18851797 | PARTICLE-CONTAINING HYDROGEL | COHEN, MICHAEL P | 1612 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 27, 2024 |
| 18644454 | HOLLOW POLYMER PARTICLES AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING SAME | REDDY, KARUNA P | 1764 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Apr 24, 2024 |
| 18283094 | COMPOSITE RESIN PARTICLES, COMPOSITE RESIN FOAMING PARTICLES, AND FOAM MOLDED BODY | FISCHER, JUSTIN R | 1749 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Sep 20, 2023 |
| 18283084 | HOLLOW PARTICLES AND USE THEREOF | KRYLOVA, IRINA | 1764 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Sep 20, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialSekisui Kasei Co. Ltd. has 5 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 4 art units and 5 examiners.
Hai Vo has the most, with 1 of Sekisui Kasei Co. Ltd.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Chemistry & Materials (USPTO Tech Center 1700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
