Prosecution Insights
Last updated: October 04, 2026

Teijin Aramid B V

Technology area: Chemistry & Materials

3 pending office actions • 3 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days

Analysis

Teijin Aramid B V has 3 pending office actions in the Chemistry & Materials technology area. These actions are assigned to 3 distinct examiners and 3 distinct art units, meaning each pending matter is being reviewed by a different person in a different technical division. This distribution of 3 actions across 3 distinct art units suggests that the company is pursuing independent innovations that do not overlap in their examination paths.

The busiest examiner, SULTANA, NAHIDA, is responsible for 1 pending office action. This busiest examiner pending count of 1 confirms that the 3 pending office actions are split evenly among the 3 distinct examiners. Because each action is also in a separate art unit, there is no overlap in the examination environment for these cases. The applicant must develop three independent prosecution strategies to address the unique requirements of each of the 3 distinct examiners and art units. Practitioners cannot rely on a single successful argument to resolve all 3 pending office actions, as the 3 distinct art units likely apply different examination guidelines. The lack of concentration across the 3 distinct examiners requires a more resource-intensive approach to manage the varied feedback from the patent office. Each of the 3 pending office actions requires an individualized response that addresses the specific technical concerns of the assigned examiner within the Chemistry & Materials field.

Written from this page's own data; every figure is computed from USPTO records and verified before publication.

Portfolio Summary

3
Total Pending OAs
2
Non-Final OAs
1
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

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.

0
Overdue
0
Due this week
0
Due this month
0
Due in next 60 days
1
Due later

Case Difficulty Mix

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.

0
Hard (0%)
3
Medium (100%)
0
Easy (0%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only1 (33%)
§102 only1 (33%)
Double-patenting + other1 (33%)

Industry Mix

How the docket's pending cases split across USPTO tech-center bands.

3
Life Sciences
100% of docket
0
Information Tech
0% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
0
Semiconductors
0% of docket
0
Mechanical / Eng
0% of docket
0
Business / Other
0% of docket

Time-on-OA Estimate

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.

30 h
Manual time on pending OAs
6 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
10 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
0.3 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
SULTANA, NAHIDA 1 78.2% +8.7%
FORTUNA, JOSE A 1 79.5% +9.9%
STANLEY, JANE L 1 58.4% +29.5%

Interview Candidates (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 1 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18286494 PROCESS TO MANUFACTURE AN ARAMID SOLUTION STANLEY, JANE L —

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
1743 1
1748 1
1767 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
19115925 PROCESS TO MAKE AN ARAMID SOLUTION SULTANA, NAHIDA 1743 §102 Non-Final OA — Pending Mar 27, 2025
18567104 MODIFIED ARAMID PULP AND FRICTION MATERIAL COMPRISING MODIFIED ARAMID PULP FORTUNA, JOSE A 1748 §103 Final Rejection 76d Pending Dec 05, 2023
18286494 PROCESS TO MANUFACTURE AN ARAMID SOLUTION STANLEY, JANE L 1767 §102§103DP Non-Final OA — Pending Oct 11, 2023

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