Technology areas: Chemistry & Materials • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
11 pending office actions • 4 art units • 11 examiners • 0 of 11 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 13 patents granted in the last 365 days
Unicharm Corporation has 11 pending office actions in Chemistry & Materials. The matters involve 11 distinct examiners and 4 distinct art units. Examiner assignment is fully distributed, while the smaller art-unit figure indicates repeated prosecution activity within those units.
DUBOIS, PHILIP A is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending matter. No examiner accounts for a larger identified workload, so the principal coordination opportunity lies in art-unit and technology review rather than examiner concentration.
Counsel may benefit from maintaining a shared position on recurring Chemistry & Materials issues while preserving response plans tailored to each examiner. The combination of broad examiner distribution and narrower unit distribution makes internal docket organization especially important.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 3 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.
Every pending office action with a known statutory deadline, placed on a days-until-due axis. Dots left of Today are overdue; the further right, the more runway. Cases that share a deadline window stack vertically. 3 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.
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 | 3 (27%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 8 (73%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| DUBOIS, PHILIP A | 1 | 25.6% | +26.3% |
| GLIMM, CARRIE LYNN STOFFEL | 1 | 25.3% | +12.9% |
| BEKKER, KELLY JO | 1 | 16.8% | +35.1% |
| LEVY, BRANDON WILLIAM | 1 | 62.9% | +46.5% |
| CONLON, MARISA V | 1 | 41.2% | +36.5% |
| HAN, SETH | 1 | 59.6% | +27.1% |
| ARBLE, JESSICA R | 1 | 66.6% | +25.0% |
| BECKER, DREW E | 1 | 49.0% | +0.2% |
| SWEENEY, MAURA ELIZABETH | 1 | 7.0% | -8.9% |
| RASSAVONG, ERIC | 1 | 70.7% | +35.4% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 8 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18259121 | PET FOOD | SWEENEY, MAURA ELIZABETH | 36d overdue |
| 18214810 | PET FOOD | BECKER, DREW E | 12d |
| 18960289 | COMPREHENSIVE NUTRITIONAL PET FOOD | DUBOIS, PHILIP A | — |
| 18960607 | DRY PET FOOD | GLIMM, CARRIE LYNN STOFFEL | — |
| 18949794 | WET PET FOOD PALATABILITY ENHANCER, AND WET PET FOOD | BEKKER, KELLY JO | — |
| 18891514 | DIAPER FOR PETS | LEVY, BRANDON WILLIAM | — |
| 18658462 | SYSTEM TOILET FOR PET | CONLON, MARISA V | — |
| 18598575 | ABSORBENT SHEET FOR ANIMALS AND ANIMAL TOILET | HAN, SETH | — |
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 8 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18960289 | COMPREHENSIVE NUTRITIONAL PET FOOD | DUBOIS, PHILIP A | — |
| 18960607 | DRY PET FOOD | GLIMM, CARRIE LYNN STOFFEL | — |
| 18949794 | WET PET FOOD PALATABILITY ENHANCER, AND WET PET FOOD | BEKKER, KELLY JO | — |
| 18891514 | DIAPER FOR PETS | LEVY, BRANDON WILLIAM | — |
| 18658462 | SYSTEM TOILET FOR PET | CONLON, MARISA V | — |
| 18598575 | ABSORBENT SHEET FOR ANIMALS AND ANIMAL TOILET | HAN, SETH | — |
| 18444915 | PET SHEET AND KIT | ARBLE, JESSICA R | — |
| 17975147 | ABSORBENT ARTICLE AND DEFECATION AND URINATION DETERMINATION METHOD | RASSAVONG, ERIC | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3781 | 4 |
| 1791 | 3 |
| 1792 | 2 |
| 3643 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18960289 | COMPREHENSIVE NUTRITIONAL PET FOOD | DUBOIS, PHILIP A | 1791 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 26, 2024 |
| 18960607 | DRY PET FOOD | GLIMM, CARRIE LYNN STOFFEL | — | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 26, 2024 |
| 18949794 | WET PET FOOD PALATABILITY ENHANCER, AND WET PET FOOD | BEKKER, KELLY JO | 1792 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 15, 2024 |
| 18891514 | DIAPER FOR PETS | LEVY, BRANDON WILLIAM | 3781 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 20, 2024 |
| 18658462 | SYSTEM TOILET FOR PET | CONLON, MARISA V | 3643 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | May 08, 2024 |
| 18598575 | ABSORBENT SHEET FOR ANIMALS AND ANIMAL TOILET | HAN, SETH | 3781 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 07, 2024 |
| 18444915 | PET SHEET AND KIT | ARBLE, JESSICA R | 3781 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 19, 2024 |
| 18214810 | PET FOOD | BECKER, DREW E | 1792 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | 12d | Pending | Jun 27, 2023 |
| 18259121 | PET FOOD | SWEENEY, MAURA ELIZABETH | 1791 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 36d overdue | Pending | Jun 23, 2023 |
| 17975147 | ABSORBENT ARTICLE AND DEFECATION AND URINATION DETERMINATION METHOD | RASSAVONG, ERIC | 3781 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 27, 2022 |
| 17747299 | PET FOOD PRODUCT AND PET FOOD SPOON | GERLA, STEPHANIE RAE | 1791 | §103 | Final Rejection | 3d overdue | Pending | May 18, 2022 |
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Start Free TrialUnicharm Corporation has 11 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 4 art units and 11 examiners.
Philip A Dubois has the most, with 1 of Unicharm Corporation's pending office actions.
Mostly Chemistry & Materials (USPTO Tech Center 1700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
