Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
8 pending office actions • 6 art units • 8 examiners • 0 of 8 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 17 patents granted in the last 365 days
UBE Corporation has 8 pending office actions in Chemistry & Materials. The docket spans 8 distinct examiners and 6 distinct art units, showing broad examiner distribution across a smaller set of technical assignments. This pattern suggests that prosecution management must account for several independent examiner practices while also recognizing art-unit overlap.
LEONARD, MICHELLE TURNER is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending action. The listed busiest assignment does not represent a larger individual workload than the other examiner assignments in the supplied data. Counsel may therefore benefit from matter-level tracking, with art-unit grouping used to coordinate recurring technical or claim issues where appropriate.
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 | 5 (62%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 3 (38%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| LEONARD, MICHELLE TURNER | 1 | 69.6% | +9.9% |
| HALL, DEVE V. | 1 | 74.8% | +16.2% |
| WU, ANDREA | 1 | 68.1% | +21.3% |
| CARDA, DANIELLE MARIE | 1 | 83.4% | +12.8% |
| LEONG, SUSAN DANG | 1 | 63.7% | +39.1% |
| OTERO, KENNETH MAX | 1 | 52.4% | +43.3% |
| JOHNSTON, BRIEANN R | 1 | 49.6% | +32.6% |
| KAHN, RACHEL | 1 | 27.9% | +17.3% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 4 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18743779 | BINDER RESIN FOR ELECTRODES, ELECTRODE MIXTURE PASTE, ELECTRODE, AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING ELECTRODE | LEONARD, MICHELLE TURNER | — |
| 18687884 | Graphite-Copper Composite Material, Heat Sink Member Using the Same, and Method for Producing Graphite-Copper Composite Material | CARDA, DANIELLE MARIE | — |
| 18553451 | TITANIUM-CONTAINING OXIDE POWDER, NEGATIVE ELECTRODE ACTIVE MATERIAL COMPOSITION USING SAME, AND ALL-SOLID-STATE SECONDARY BATTERY | LEONG, SUSAN DANG | — |
| 17781808 | POLYAMIDE RESIN COMPOSITION | KAHN, RACHEL | — |
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 7 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17912291 | POLYAMIDE RESIN COMPOSITION | JOHNSTON, BRIEANN R | 28d overdue |
| 18688849 | POLYAMIDE RESIN COMPOSITION | HALL, DEVE V. | — |
| 18688066 | POLYAMIDE RESIN COMPOSITION | WU, ANDREA | — |
| 18687884 | Graphite-Copper Composite Material, Heat Sink Member Using the Same, and Method for Producing Graphite-Copper Composite Material | CARDA, DANIELLE MARIE | — |
| 18553451 | TITANIUM-CONTAINING OXIDE POWDER, NEGATIVE ELECTRODE ACTIVE MATERIAL COMPOSITION USING SAME, AND ALL-SOLID-STATE SECONDARY BATTERY | LEONG, SUSAN DANG | — |
| 18263916 | NEGATIVE ELECTRODE ACTIVE MATERIAL COMPOSITION, AND ALL-SOLID-STATE SECONDARY BATTERY INCLUDING SAME | OTERO, KENNETH MAX | — |
| 17781808 | POLYAMIDE RESIN COMPOSITION | KAHN, RACHEL | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1763 | 2 |
| 1766 | 2 |
| 1724 | 1 |
| 1738 | 1 |
| 1754 | 1 |
| 1725 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18743779 | BINDER RESIN FOR ELECTRODES, ELECTRODE MIXTURE PASTE, ELECTRODE, AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING ELECTRODE | LEONARD, MICHELLE TURNER | 1724 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 14, 2024 |
| 18688849 | POLYAMIDE RESIN COMPOSITION | HALL, DEVE V. | 1763 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 04, 2024 |
| 18688066 | POLYAMIDE RESIN COMPOSITION | WU, ANDREA | 1763 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 29, 2024 |
| 18687884 | Graphite-Copper Composite Material, Heat Sink Member Using the Same, and Method for Producing Graphite-Copper Composite Material | CARDA, DANIELLE MARIE | 1738 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 29, 2024 |
| 18553451 | TITANIUM-CONTAINING OXIDE POWDER, NEGATIVE ELECTRODE ACTIVE MATERIAL COMPOSITION USING SAME, AND ALL-SOLID-STATE SECONDARY BATTERY | LEONG, SUSAN DANG | 1754 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 29, 2023 |
| 18263916 | NEGATIVE ELECTRODE ACTIVE MATERIAL COMPOSITION, AND ALL-SOLID-STATE SECONDARY BATTERY INCLUDING SAME | OTERO, KENNETH MAX | 1725 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Aug 02, 2023 |
| 17912291 | POLYAMIDE RESIN COMPOSITION | JOHNSTON, BRIEANN R | 1766 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 28d overdue | Pending | Sep 16, 2022 |
| 17781808 | POLYAMIDE RESIN COMPOSITION | KAHN, RACHEL | 1766 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 02, 2022 |
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Start Free TrialUBE Corporation has 8 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 6 art units and 8 examiners.
Michelle Turner Leonard has the most, with 1 of UBE Corporation's pending office actions.
Mostly Chemistry & Materials (USPTO Tech Center 1700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
