Technology areas: Chemistry & Materials • Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 2 patents granted in the last 365 days
Shuhou Co. Ltd. is currently overseeing 2 pending office actions in the Chemistry & Materials technology area. This level of activity indicates a targeted effort to secure patent rights for the company's chemical developments within a narrow technical scope.
The active matters are split between a matching number of distinct examiners and 2 distinct art units. This distribution suggests that each of the 2 pending office actions is being evaluated independently by different specialists within the Chemistry & Materials sector, requiring a strategy that accounts for different examiner styles.
KHAN, TAHSEEN is the busiest examiner for the portfolio, currently managing 1 pending office action. With only two distinct examiners involved in total, the company's success depends on addressing the specific requirements of different officials across these 2 distinct art units. The outcome of the 1 pending office action under this examiner will be a key indicator of the company's overall prosecution success.
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 | 2 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| KHAN, TAHSEEN | 1 | 61.7% | +20.2% |
| MACCRATE, NICOLE PAIGE | 1 | 57.0% | +22.1% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18859199 | PRINTED MATTER AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING PRINTED MATTER | KHAN, TAHSEEN | — |
| 18603609 | SEEDSHEET MANUFACTURING APPARATUS AND SEEDSHEET | MACCRATE, NICOLE PAIGE | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1781 | 1 |
| 3642 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18859199 | PRINTED MATTER AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING PRINTED MATTER | KHAN, TAHSEEN | 1781 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 23, 2024 |
| 18603609 | SEEDSHEET MANUFACTURING APPARATUS AND SEEDSHEET | MACCRATE, NICOLE PAIGE | 3642 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 13, 2024 |
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Start Free TrialShuhou Co. Ltd. has 2 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 2 art units and 2 examiners.
Tahseen Khan has the most, with 1 of Shuhou Co. Ltd.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Chemistry & Materials (USPTO Tech Center 1700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
