Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

UNICHARM CORPORATION

5 pending office actions • 4 art units • 5 examiners • 0 of 5 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 16 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

5
Total Pending OAs
2
Non-Final OAs
3
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 5 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

3
Overdue
0
Due this week
2
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. 5 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (3)Due ≤ 30 days (2)

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.

0
Hard (0%)
4
Medium (80%)
1
Easy (20%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only4 (80%)
§112 only1 (20%)

Industry Mix

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

4
Life Sciences
80% of docket
0
Information Tech
0% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
0
Semiconductors
0% of docket
1
Mechanical / Eng
20% of docket
0
Business / Other
0% 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.

50 h
Manual time on pending OAs
10 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
18 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
0.4 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
CHATRATHI, ARJUNA P 1 63.4% +21.4%
BECKER, DREW E 1 49.0% +0.2%
SWEENEY, MAURA ELIZABETH 1 2.2% -2.8%
GLIMM, CARRIE LYNN STOFFEL 1 24.3% +16.4%
GERLA, STEPHANIE RAE 1 11.1% +22.5%

Hard Cases (3)

Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 3 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
17845935 PET FOOD GRAINS, METHOD OF PRODUCING SAME, DEVICE FOR PRODUCING SAME, AND PET FOOD GLIMM, CARRIE LYNN STOFFEL 46d overdue
18259121 PET FOOD SWEENEY, MAURA ELIZABETH 36d overdue
17747299 PET FOOD PRODUCT AND PET FOOD SPOON GERLA, STEPHANIE RAE 3d overdue

Interview Candidates (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 3 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
17845935 PET FOOD GRAINS, METHOD OF PRODUCING SAME, DEVICE FOR PRODUCING SAME, AND PET FOOD GLIMM, CARRIE LYNN STOFFEL 46d overdue
17747299 PET FOOD PRODUCT AND PET FOOD SPOON GERLA, STEPHANIE RAE 3d overdue
18590122 UNDERWEAR-TYPE ABSORBENT ARTICLE CHATRATHI, ARJUNA P 26d

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
1791 2
3781 1
1792 1
1793 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18590122 UNDERWEAR-TYPE ABSORBENT ARTICLE CHATRATHI, ARJUNA P 3781 §103 Non-Final OA 26d Pending Feb 28, 2024
18214810 PET FOOD BECKER, DREW E 1792 §103 Final Rejection 12d Pending Jun 27, 2023
18259121 PET FOOD SWEENEY, MAURA ELIZABETH 1791 §112 Final Rejection 36d overdue Pending Jun 23, 2023
17845935 PET FOOD GRAINS, METHOD OF PRODUCING SAME, DEVICE FOR PRODUCING SAME, AND PET FOOD GLIMM, CARRIE LYNN STOFFEL 1793 §103 Final Rejection 46d overdue Pending Jun 21, 2022
17747299 PET FOOD PRODUCT AND PET FOOD SPOON GERLA, STEPHANIE RAE 1791 §103 Non-Final OA 3d overdue Pending May 18, 2022

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