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
Shinhokoku Material Corp. is active in the Chemistry & Materials technology area with a portfolio currently facing 1 pending office action. The prosecution is centralized, involving 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit. This structure indicates that the company's current legal efforts at the USPTO are concentrated in a specific technical niche. The alignment of the total pending actions with the examiner suggests a specific point of contact for the company's current intellectual property development.
The busiest examiner for the portfolio is WALCK, BRIAN D, who is handling 1 busiest examiner pending action. This action accounts for the 1 pending office action reported in the data. With the prosecution limited to the distinct art unit, the company's strategy must address the specific examination standards of that group. Practitioners can expect the outcome of this single action to have a definitive impact on the portfolio's status, as there are no other pending actions to provide diversification across different examiners.
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 |
|---|---|
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| WALCK, BRIAN D | 1 | 58.9% | +26.7% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18607009 | LOW THERMAL EXPANSION ALLOY | WALCK, BRIAN D | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18607009 | LOW THERMAL EXPANSION ALLOY | WALCK, BRIAN D | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1738 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18607009 | LOW THERMAL EXPANSION ALLOY | WALCK, BRIAN D | 1738 | §102§103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Mar 15, 2024 |
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Start Free TrialShinhokoku Material Corp. has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Brian D Walck has the most, with 1 of Shinhokoku Material Corp.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Chemistry & Materials (USPTO Tech Center 1700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
