Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
8 pending office actions • 3 art units • 6 examiners • 0 of 8 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 2 patents granted in the last 365 days
The Nisshin OilliO Group, Ltd. has 6 pending office actions in Chemistry & Materials. The matters involve 4 examiners and 2 art units, indicating a concentrated technical classification structure with multiple examiner relationships.
ZILBERING, ASSAF is the busiest examiner, with 2 pending matters. Counsel can coordinate those matters while using the shared art-unit context to identify recurring examination issues across the portfolio.
The 2-art-unit structure supports centralized technical review, but each examiner’s treatment and cited art should remain separately documented for response preparation.
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 |
|---|---|
| §103 only | 4 (50%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 4 (50%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ZILBERING, ASSAF | 2 | 35.3% | +27.6% |
| SILVERMAN, JANICE Y | 2 | 37.6% | +53.0% |
| O'HERN, BRENT T | 1 | 78.5% | +19.4% |
| BEKKER, KELLY JO | 1 | 16.8% | +35.1% |
| TOWNSLEY, SARA ELIZABETH | 1 | 25.6% | +48.2% |
| TRAN, LIEN THUY | 1 | 28.7% | +26.5% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 5 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18550327 | FLAVOR-IMPARTING AGENT AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING SAME | SILVERMAN, JANICE Y | 16d overdue |
| 18905782 | OIL AND/OR FAT COMPOSITION AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING SAME | O'HERN, BRENT T | — |
| 18687098 | GEL-LIKE FOOD AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING GEL-LIKE FOOD | BEKKER, KELLY JO | — |
| 18552283 | METHOD FOR INCREASING BLOOD DECANOIC ACID CONCENTRATION, BLOOD-DECANOIC-ACID-CONCENTRATION-INCREASING AGENT, PHARMACEUTICAL COMPOSITION, AND FOOD COMPOSITION | TOWNSLEY, SARA ELIZABETH | — |
| 18027612 | Loosening Agent for Starch-Containing Food | TRAN, LIEN THUY | — |
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 8 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18550327 | FLAVOR-IMPARTING AGENT AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING SAME | SILVERMAN, JANICE Y | 16d overdue |
| 18994711 | FATS AND OILS COMPOSITION FOR CHOCOLATE AND CHOCOLATE | ZILBERING, ASSAF | — |
| 18905782 | OIL AND/OR FAT COMPOSITION AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING SAME | O'HERN, BRENT T | — |
| 18714690 | METHOD FOR IMPROVING MILKY FLAVOR OF FOOD/BEVERAGE AND FOOD/BEVERAGE MILKY FLAVOR IMPROVER | ZILBERING, ASSAF | — |
| 18687098 | GEL-LIKE FOOD AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING GEL-LIKE FOOD | BEKKER, KELLY JO | — |
| 18552283 | METHOD FOR INCREASING BLOOD DECANOIC ACID CONCENTRATION, BLOOD-DECANOIC-ACID-CONCENTRATION-INCREASING AGENT, PHARMACEUTICAL COMPOSITION, AND FOOD COMPOSITION | TOWNSLEY, SARA ELIZABETH | — |
| 18027612 | Loosening Agent for Starch-Containing Food | TRAN, LIEN THUY | — |
| 18026473 | OIL-IN-WATER EMULSIFIED SEASONING, AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING SAME | SILVERMAN, JANICE Y | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1792 | 5 |
| 1629 | 1 |
| 1793 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18994711 | FATS AND OILS COMPOSITION FOR CHOCOLATE AND CHOCOLATE | ZILBERING, ASSAF | 1792 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 15, 2025 |
| 18905782 | OIL AND/OR FAT COMPOSITION AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING SAME | O'HERN, BRENT T | — | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 03, 2024 |
| 18714690 | METHOD FOR IMPROVING MILKY FLAVOR OF FOOD/BEVERAGE AND FOOD/BEVERAGE MILKY FLAVOR IMPROVER | ZILBERING, ASSAF | 1792 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 30, 2024 |
| 18687098 | GEL-LIKE FOOD AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING GEL-LIKE FOOD | BEKKER, KELLY JO | 1792 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Feb 27, 2024 |
| 18552283 | METHOD FOR INCREASING BLOOD DECANOIC ACID CONCENTRATION, BLOOD-DECANOIC-ACID-CONCENTRATION-INCREASING AGENT, PHARMACEUTICAL COMPOSITION, AND FOOD COMPOSITION | TOWNSLEY, SARA ELIZABETH | 1629 | §102§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Sep 25, 2023 |
| 18550327 | FLAVOR-IMPARTING AGENT AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING SAME | SILVERMAN, JANICE Y | 1792 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | 16d overdue | Pending | Sep 13, 2023 |
| 18027612 | Loosening Agent for Starch-Containing Food | TRAN, LIEN THUY | 1793 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 21, 2023 |
| 18026473 | OIL-IN-WATER EMULSIFIED SEASONING, AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING SAME | SILVERMAN, JANICE Y | 1792 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 15, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialThe Nisshin OilliO Group, Ltd. has 8 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 3 art units and 6 examiners.
Assaf Zilbering has the most, with 2 of The Nisshin OilliO Group, Ltd.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Chemistry & Materials (USPTO Tech Center 1700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
