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 • 6 patents granted in the last 365 days
TAIYO NIPPON SANSO Corporation has 4 pending office actions in Chemistry & Materials. The matters involve 4 distinct examiners and 4 distinct art units, so the portfolio is distributed rather than concentrated within the available prosecution data.
RAYMOND, KEITH MICHAEL is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending matter. Because that examiner handles 1 of the 4 actions, prosecution management should account for several separate examiner and art-unit relationships.
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 |
|---|---|
| §112 only | 1 (33%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (67%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| RAYMOND, KEITH MICHAEL | 1 | 55.5% | +21.5% |
| POLLOCK, AUSTIN M | 1 | 51.2% | +36.2% |
| MCGUTHRY BANKS, TIMA MICHELE | 1 | 81.6% | +2.8% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17921249 | MELTING/REFINING FURNACE FOR COLD IRON SOURCES, AND MELTING/REFINING FURNACE OPERATION METHOD | MCGUTHRY BANKS, TIMA MICHELE | 16d overdue |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18995019 | HEAT EXCHANGER | RAYMOND, KEITH MICHAEL | — |
| 18579667 | MULTILAYER STRUCTURE MANUFACTURING DEVICE AND MULTILAYER STRUCTURE MANUFACTURING METHOD | POLLOCK, AUSTIN M | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18995019 | HEAT EXCHANGER | RAYMOND, KEITH MICHAEL | — |
| 18579667 | MULTILAYER STRUCTURE MANUFACTURING DEVICE AND MULTILAYER STRUCTURE MANUFACTURING METHOD | POLLOCK, AUSTIN M | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3798 | 1 |
| 1738 | 1 |
| 1733 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18995019 | HEAT EXCHANGER | RAYMOND, KEITH MICHAEL | 3798 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 15, 2025 |
| 18579667 | MULTILAYER STRUCTURE MANUFACTURING DEVICE AND MULTILAYER STRUCTURE MANUFACTURING METHOD | POLLOCK, AUSTIN M | 1738 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 16, 2024 |
| 17921249 | MELTING/REFINING FURNACE FOR COLD IRON SOURCES, AND MELTING/REFINING FURNACE OPERATION METHOD | MCGUTHRY BANKS, TIMA MICHELE | 1733 | §112 | Non-Final OA | 16d overdue | Pending | Oct 25, 2022 |
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Start Free TrialTAIYO NIPPON SANSO Corporation has 3 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 3 art units and 3 examiners.
Keith Michael Raymond has the most, with 1 of TAIYO NIPPON SANSO Corporation's pending office actions.
Mostly Chemistry & Materials (USPTO Tech Center 1700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
