Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Toray Fine Chemicals Co. Ltd. has 2 pending office actions in Chemistry & Materials. The matters involve 2 examiners and 2 art units.
WU, ANDREA is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending matter. The docket is evenly distributed, which favors separate review of each examiner’s issues and the corresponding technical classification.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| WU, ANDREA | 1 | 68.1% | +21.3% |
| ZIMMER, MARC S | 1 | 79.4% | +16.1% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18569255 | METHOD OF PRODUCING SILICONE POLYMER | ZIMMER, MARC S | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18695593 | METHOD FOR PRODUCING THIOL GROUP-CONTAINING POLYETHER POLYMER | WU, ANDREA | — |
| 18569255 | METHOD OF PRODUCING SILICONE POLYMER | ZIMMER, MARC S | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1763 | 1 |
| 1765 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18695593 | METHOD FOR PRODUCING THIOL GROUP-CONTAINING POLYETHER POLYMER | WU, ANDREA | 1763 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 26, 2024 |
| 18569255 | METHOD OF PRODUCING SILICONE POLYMER | ZIMMER, MARC S | 1765 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 12, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialToray Fine Chemicals Co. Ltd. has 2 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 2 art units and 2 examiners.
Andrea Wu has the most, with 1 of Toray Fine Chemicals Co. Ltd.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Chemistry & Materials (USPTO Tech Center 1700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
