Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 7 patents granted in the last 365 days
Toray Advanced Materials Korea Inc. has 2 pending office actions in the Chemistry & Materials technology area. These matters are handled by 2 distinct examiners and 2 distinct art units. This indicates that the 2 pending office actions are being examined in different technical groups at the USPTO.
The busiest examiner is COPENHEAVER, BLAINE R, who manages 1 busiest examiner pending office action. With 2 pending office actions and 2 distinct examiners, the prosecution workload is evenly divided. The use of 2 distinct art units suggests that the company's current filings cover different technical subjects, requiring interaction with multiple supervisory chains. The 1 busiest examiner pending office action represents half of the company's current pending workload.
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 | 1 (50%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| COPENHEAVER, BLAINE R | 1 | 86.4% | +18.9% |
| HUANG, RYAN | 1 | 53.1% | +31.1% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18559237 | BIAXIALLY ORIENTED POLYESTER FILM AND SECONDARY BATTERY SEPARATOR COMPRISING SAME | COPENHEAVER, BLAINE R | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18023656 | POLYAMIDE REVERSE OSMOSIS MEMBRANE HAVING EXCELLENT DURABILITY AND ANTIFOULING PROPERTIES, AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING SAME | HUANG, RYAN | 15d overdue |
| 18559237 | BIAXIALLY ORIENTED POLYESTER FILM AND SECONDARY BATTERY SEPARATOR COMPRISING SAME | COPENHEAVER, BLAINE R | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1781 | 1 |
| 1777 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18559237 | BIAXIALLY ORIENTED POLYESTER FILM AND SECONDARY BATTERY SEPARATOR COMPRISING SAME | COPENHEAVER, BLAINE R | 1781 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 06, 2023 |
| 18023656 | POLYAMIDE REVERSE OSMOSIS MEMBRANE HAVING EXCELLENT DURABILITY AND ANTIFOULING PROPERTIES, AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING SAME | HUANG, RYAN | 1777 | §103Other | Non-Final OA | 15d overdue | Pending | Feb 27, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialToray Advanced Materials Korea Inc. has 2 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 2 art units and 2 examiners.
Blaine R Copenheaver has the most, with 1 of Toray Advanced Materials Korea Inc.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Chemistry & Materials (USPTO Tech Center 1700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
