Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
1 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Shiken Co. Ltd. maintains a focused presence in the Chemistry & Materials technology area with 1 pending office action currently on record. This workload is distributed across 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit, indicating a narrow channel of engagement with the patent office. The alignment of these figures suggests that the company's current legal strategy is concentrated within a specific regulatory environment rather than spread across multiple technical disciplines. Practitioners should note that this concentration simplifies the administrative tracking of the portfolio but increases the impact of any single procedural delay.
The busiest examiner for the portfolio is SPEER, JOSHUA MAXWELL, who is responsible for 1 busiest examiner pending action. This individual manages the totality of the company's active prosecution, making their specific examination style the primary factor for the 1 pending office action. Practitioners can focus their preparation on the procedural preferences of this 1 distinct examiner since there are no other officials involved in the current portfolio. Reviewing the examiner's past citation patterns may provide insights into the likely hurdles for this specific matter.
With only 1 distinct art unit involved, the technical scope of the pending office action remains highly specialized. This lack of variety in art units and examiners means that the outcome of the current prosecution depends entirely on the interactions within this single administrative path. The 1 busiest examiner pending action represents the entire active pipeline for Shiken Co. Ltd. at this time, requiring a precise and tailored response to the examiner's concerns.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| SPEER, JOSHUA MAXWELL | 1 | 77.8% | -2.5% |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1736 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18259767 | METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING TITANIUM DIOXIDE SEMICONDUCTOR | SPEER, JOSHUA MAXWELL | 1736 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 28, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialShiken Co. Ltd. has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Joshua Maxwell Speer has the most, with 1 of Shiken Co. Ltd.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Chemistry & Materials (USPTO Tech Center 1700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
