Technology areas: Chemistry & Materials • Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics
3 pending office actions • 3 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Shinkawa Ltd. currently has 3 pending office actions within the Chemistry & Materials technology area. These 3 pending office actions are assigned to 3 distinct examiners and 3 distinct art units. The 3 distinct examiners indicate that each pending matter is handled by a different individual. The 3 distinct art units show that the portfolio is spread across multiple administrative divisions within the patent office.
KOCH, GEORGE R is the busiest examiner for this portfolio, holding 1 busiest_examiner_pending action. This examiner is one of the 3 distinct examiners managing the company's cases. The 3 distinct art units provide the technical framework for the 3 pending office actions. Practitioners should note that the workload is distributed among the examiners, with KOCH, GEORGE R responsible for 1 busiest_examiner_pending action.
The Chemistry & Materials technology area encompasses all 3 pending office actions. KOCH, GEORGE R is the primary contact for the busiest portion of the portfolio. The 3 distinct examiners and 3 distinct art units create a specific administrative structure for these filings. This distribution requires coordination across the distinct art units to manage the prosecution effectively. The 3 pending office actions represent the active workload.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 1 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.
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 (33%) |
| §102 only | 1 (33%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 1 (33%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| KOCH, GEORGE R | 1 | 72.8% | +17.0% |
| LEE, KYOUNG | 1 | 93.2% | +5.1% |
| SCHATZ, CHRISTOPHER T | 1 | 62.6% | +27.3% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18725132 | ELECTRONIC COMPONENT MOUNTING DEVICE AND ELECTRONIC COMPONENT MOUNTING METHOD | LEE, KYOUNG | — |
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 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18270732 | SUCTION DEVICE, SUCTION UNIT, SUCTION METHOD, AND COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM | SCHATZ, CHRISTOPHER T | 43d |
| 19121789 | MOUNTING APPARATUS, MOUNTING METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM | KOCH, GEORGE R | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1745 | 1 |
| 2817 | 1 |
| 1746 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19121789 | MOUNTING APPARATUS, MOUNTING METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM | KOCH, GEORGE R | 1745 | §103§112DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 16, 2025 |
| 18725132 | ELECTRONIC COMPONENT MOUNTING DEVICE AND ELECTRONIC COMPONENT MOUNTING METHOD | LEE, KYOUNG | 2817 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 28, 2024 |
| 18270732 | SUCTION DEVICE, SUCTION UNIT, SUCTION METHOD, AND COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM | SCHATZ, CHRISTOPHER T | 1746 | §103 | Final Rejection | 43d | Pending | Jul 03, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialShinkawa Ltd. has 3 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 3 art units and 3 examiners.
George R Koch has the most, with 1 of Shinkawa Ltd.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Chemistry & Materials (USPTO Tech Center 1700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
