Prosecution Insights
Last updated: August 14, 2026

Unicharm Corporation

8 pending office actions • 4 art units • 8 examiners • 0 of 8 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 14 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

8
Total Pending OAs
5
Non-Final OAs
3
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

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.

2
Overdue
0
Due this week
1
Due this month
0
Due in next 60 days
0
Due later

Deadline Fire Line

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.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (2)Due ≤ 30 days (1)

Case Difficulty Mix

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.

6
Hard (75%)
2
Medium (25%)
0
Easy (0%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only2 (25%)
Multi-statute (no §101)6 (75%)

Industry Mix

How the docket's pending cases split across USPTO tech-center bands.

3
Life Sciences
38% of docket
0
Information Tech
0% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
0
Semiconductors
0% of docket
4
Mechanical / Eng
50% of docket
1
Business / Other
12% of docket

Time-on-OA Estimate

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.

80 h
Manual time on pending OAs
16 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
28 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
0.7 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
BEKKER, KELLY JO 1 16.6% +35.2%
CONLON, MARISA V 1 41.0% +39.0%
HAN, SETH 1 59.1% +27.1%
ARBLE, JESSICA R 1 66.0% +25.9%
BECKER, DREW E 1 49.0% -0.1%
SWEENEY, MAURA ELIZABETH 1 3.7% -4.7%
RASSAVONG, ERIC 1 71.1% +34.9%
GERLA, STEPHANIE RAE 1 15.9% +31.1%

Hard Cases (7)

Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 7 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18259121 PET FOOD SWEENEY, MAURA ELIZABETH 36d overdue
17747299 PET FOOD PRODUCT AND PET FOOD SPOON GERLA, STEPHANIE RAE 3d overdue
18214810 PET FOOD BECKER, DREW E 12d
18949794 WET PET FOOD PALATABILITY ENHANCER, AND WET PET FOOD BEKKER, KELLY JO
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

Interview Candidates (6)

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 6 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
17747299 PET FOOD PRODUCT AND PET FOOD SPOON GERLA, STEPHANIE RAE 3d overdue
18949794 WET PET FOOD PALATABILITY ENHANCER, AND WET PET FOOD BEKKER, KELLY JO
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

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
3781 3
1791 2
3643 1
1792 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18949794 WET PET FOOD PALATABILITY ENHANCER, AND WET PET FOOD BEKKER, KELLY JO §103 Non-Final OA Pending Nov 15, 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 Final Rejection 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 Non-Final OA 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§112 Non-Final OA 3d overdue Pending May 18, 2022

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