Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
1 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Toyo Aluminium Kabushik Kaisha currently has 1 pending office action within the Chemistry & Materials technology area. This application is being examined within 1 distinct art unit, indicating a concentrated technical scope for the company's current patent activities. The presence of 1 distinct examiner suggests that the company's prosecution experience is currently centralized under a single official. This focus within Chemistry & Materials may allow the company to develop a very specific legal strategy tailored to the requirements of that 1 distinct art unit.
The busiest examiner for this portfolio is LUK, VANESSA TIBAY, who is handling 1 pending office action. Since the total number of pending office actions is 1, the decisions made by LUK, VANESSA TIBAY will determine the immediate direction of the company's intellectual property in this sector. The fact that 1 distinct examiner is responsible for the 1 pending office action means that the company does not currently have to manage multiple examiner styles. Success in the Chemistry & Materials area for this portfolio depends entirely on the interaction with LUK, VANESSA TIBAY.
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 (100%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| LUK, VANESSA TIBAY | 1 | 54.5% | +26.3% |
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 # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18606887 | MATERIAL FOR ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING, ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING METHOD, AND ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING APPARATUS | LUK, VANESSA TIBAY | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1733 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18606887 | MATERIAL FOR ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING, ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING METHOD, AND ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING APPARATUS | LUK, VANESSA TIBAY | 1733 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 15, 2024 |
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Start Free TrialToyo Aluminium Kabushik Kaisha has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Vanessa Tibay Luk has the most, with 1 of Toyo Aluminium Kabushik Kaisha's pending office actions.
Mostly Chemistry & Materials (USPTO Tech Center 1700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
