Technology areas: Chemistry & Materials • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
3 pending office actions • 3 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 2 patents granted in the last 365 days
Taiyo Holdings Co. Ltd. is currently navigating 3 pending office actions in the Chemistry & Materials technology area. These 3 actions are assigned to 3 distinct examiners and 3 distinct art units. LEE, DORIS L is identified as the busiest examiner for the portfolio, with 1 pending office action.
The portfolio exhibits a perfectly even distribution, with 3 pending office actions spread across 3 distinct examiners and 3 distinct art units. This means that every pending matter is being reviewed by a different person in a different administrative group. No single examiner, including the busiest examiner LEE, DORIS L, manages more than 1 pending action, which minimizes the impact of any individual examiner's preferences.
For the practitioner, this distribution across 3 distinct art units suggests that the company's Chemistry & Materials filings cover a variety of technical sub-specialties. The strategy must be tailored to 3 different sets of examiner expectations, as there is no concentration of matters to leverage. This decentralized structure provides the company with 3 independent opportunities for allowance within the current portfolio.
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 (67%) |
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| LEE, DORIS L | 1 | 58.7% | +8.8% |
| LEONARD, MICHAEL L | 1 | 63.7% | +8.3% |
| CHEYNEY, CHARLES | 1 | 56.7% | +42.6% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18284908 | INK-FILLED CARTRIDGE | CHEYNEY, CHARLES | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1764 | 1 |
| 1763 | 1 |
| 3754 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18697033 | THERMOSETTING RESIN COMPOSITION, CURED PRODUCT, AND PRINTED WIRING BOARD | LEE, DORIS L | 1764 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 29, 2024 |
| 18587714 | THERMOSETTING RESIN COMPOSITION, CURED PRODUCT, AND PRINTED WIRING BOARD | LEONARD, MICHAEL L | 1763 | §102§103DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 26, 2024 |
| 18284908 | INK-FILLED CARTRIDGE | CHEYNEY, CHARLES | 3754 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Sep 29, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialTaiyo Holdings Co. Ltd. has 3 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 3 art units and 3 examiners.
Doris L Lee has the most, with 1 of Taiyo Holdings Co. Ltd.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Chemistry & Materials (USPTO Tech Center 1700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
