Technology areas: Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals • Chemistry & Materials • Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics
4 pending office actions • 4 art units • 4 examiners • 0 of 4 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 12 patents granted in the last 365 days
Shoei Chemical Inc. maintains 3 pending office actions focused in the Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals technology area. The workload is distributed across 3 distinct examiners and 3 distinct art units, indicating a diverse examination environment despite the shared technology sector. BAKSHI, PANCHAM is identified as the busiest examiner for the company, currently handling 1 pending action. This distribution suggests that the company's current prosecution efforts are spread evenly across its 3 distinct examiners.
Because each of the 3 distinct examiners is managing 1 of the 3 pending office actions, the portfolio shows no specific examiner concentration beyond the individual level. The involvement of 3 distinct art units further suggests that the Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals filings cover a range of sub-specialties. For practitioners, this means that prosecution strategies may need to be tailored to the specific expectations of different examiners rather than a single point of contact. The presence of 1 pending action for the busiest examiner, BAKSHI, PANCHAM, confirms that no single individual dominates the current pending landscape.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 2 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 (25%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 3 (75%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| JACKSON, MONIQUE R | 1 | 34.8% | +44.3% |
| BAKSHI, PANCHAM | 1 | 76.7% | +30.2% |
| YOUNG, WILLIAM D | 1 | 54.4% | +14.5% |
| CHEN, YU | 1 | 67.9% | +29.8% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18150976 | LIGHT EMITTING DIODES AND METHOD OF MAKING THEREOF BY SELECTIVELY GROWING ACTIVE LAYERS FROM TRENCH SEPARATED AREAS | CHEN, YU | 5d |
| 19109961 | NANOPARTICLE COMPOSITE | JACKSON, MONIQUE R | — |
| 18657548 | THERMALLY STABLE POLYTHIOL LIGANDS WITH PENDANT SOLUBILIZING MOIETIES | BAKSHI, PANCHAM | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18346485 | METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING ELECTRONIC COMPONENT | YOUNG, WILLIAM D | 30d overdue |
| 18150976 | LIGHT EMITTING DIODES AND METHOD OF MAKING THEREOF BY SELECTIVELY GROWING ACTIVE LAYERS FROM TRENCH SEPARATED AREAS | CHEN, YU | 5d |
| 19109961 | NANOPARTICLE COMPOSITE | JACKSON, MONIQUE R | — |
| 18657548 | THERMALLY STABLE POLYTHIOL LIGANDS WITH PENDANT SOLUBILIZING MOIETIES | BAKSHI, PANCHAM | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1788 | 1 |
| 1623 | 1 |
| 1761 | 1 |
| 2896 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19109961 | NANOPARTICLE COMPOSITE | JACKSON, MONIQUE R | 1788 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 07, 2025 |
| 18657548 | THERMALLY STABLE POLYTHIOL LIGANDS WITH PENDANT SOLUBILIZING MOIETIES | BAKSHI, PANCHAM | 1623 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 07, 2024 |
| 18346485 | METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING ELECTRONIC COMPONENT | YOUNG, WILLIAM D | 1761 | §103 | Final Rejection | 30d overdue | Pending | Jul 03, 2023 |
| 18150976 | LIGHT EMITTING DIODES AND METHOD OF MAKING THEREOF BY SELECTIVELY GROWING ACTIVE LAYERS FROM TRENCH SEPARATED AREAS | CHEN, YU | 2896 | §102§103§112 | Final Rejection | 5d | Pending | Jan 06, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialShoei Chemical Inc. has 4 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 4 art units and 4 examiners.
Monique R Jackson has the most, with 1 of Shoei Chemical Inc.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Chemistry & Materials (USPTO Tech Center 1700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
