Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
3 pending office actions • 3 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 8 patents granted in the last 365 days
TOWA Corporation has 4 pending office actions in Chemistry & Materials. The matters involve 4 distinct examiners and 4 distinct art units, indicating complete distribution across both assignment categories.
TENTONI, LEO B is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending matter. Counsel should assess each prosecution record independently, without relying on a recurring examiner or art-unit pattern.
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 (33%) |
| §102 only | 1 (33%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (33%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| TENTONI, LEO B | 1 | 81.9% | +10.1% |
| LEE, EDMUND H | 1 | 69.6% | +17.4% |
| WANG, ALEXANDER A | 1 | 65.7% | +21.5% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19107646 | SHEET MATERIAL POSITIONING DEVICE, POSITIONING METHOD, AND SHIELD LAYER FORMATION METHOD FOR ELECTRONIC COMPONENT | TENTONI, LEO B | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18995789 | MOLDING DIE, RESIN MOLDING APPARATUS, AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING RESIN MOLDED PRODUCT | LEE, EDMUND H | — |
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 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19107646 | SHEET MATERIAL POSITIONING DEVICE, POSITIONING METHOD, AND SHIELD LAYER FORMATION METHOD FOR ELECTRONIC COMPONENT | TENTONI, LEO B | — |
| 18995789 | MOLDING DIE, RESIN MOLDING APPARATUS, AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING RESIN MOLDED PRODUCT | LEE, EDMUND H | — |
| 18702646 | MOLD FOR RESIN MOLDING, RESIN MOLDING APPARATUS, AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING RESIN MOLDED ARTICLE | WANG, ALEXANDER A | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1742 | 1 |
| 1744 | 1 |
| 1741 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19107646 | SHEET MATERIAL POSITIONING DEVICE, POSITIONING METHOD, AND SHIELD LAYER FORMATION METHOD FOR ELECTRONIC COMPONENT | TENTONI, LEO B | 1742 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 28, 2025 |
| 18995789 | MOLDING DIE, RESIN MOLDING APPARATUS, AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING RESIN MOLDED PRODUCT | LEE, EDMUND H | 1744 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jan 16, 2025 |
| 18702646 | MOLD FOR RESIN MOLDING, RESIN MOLDING APPARATUS, AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING RESIN MOLDED ARTICLE | WANG, ALEXANDER A | 1741 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Apr 18, 2024 |
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Start Free TrialTOWA Corporation has 3 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 3 art units and 3 examiners.
Leo B Tentoni has the most, with 1 of TOWA Corporation's pending office actions.
Mostly Chemistry & Materials (USPTO Tech Center 1700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
