Technology areas: Chemistry & Materials • Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
3 pending office actions • 3 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 5 patents granted in the last 365 days
Unitika Ltd. has 3 pending office actions in the Chemistry & Materials technology area. These matters are assigned to distinct examiners and the distinct art units. There are 3 distinct examiners involved in the cases.
VALENTI, ANDREA M is the busiest examiner for the company, with 1 pending office action. Each examiner handles 1 action.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 2 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 | 2 (67%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (33%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| VALENTI, ANDREA M | 1 | 42.7% | +57.6% |
| WEYDEMEYER, ALICIA JANE | 1 | 46.2% | +28.0% |
| FANG, SHANE | 1 | 76.6% | +18.6% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18996478 | METHOD FOR GROWING PLANT USING WATER ABSORBING RESIN, AND WATER ABSORBING RESIN AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING SAME | VALENTI, ANDREA M | 26d |
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 # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17764609 | FLEXIBLE POLYAMIDE FILM | FANG, SHANE | 12d |
| 18996478 | METHOD FOR GROWING PLANT USING WATER ABSORBING RESIN, AND WATER ABSORBING RESIN AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING SAME | VALENTI, ANDREA M | 26d |
| 18715697 | THERMOPLASTIC RESIN FILM | WEYDEMEYER, ALICIA JANE | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3643 | 1 |
| 1781 | 1 |
| 1766 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18996478 | METHOD FOR GROWING PLANT USING WATER ABSORBING RESIN, AND WATER ABSORBING RESIN AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING SAME | VALENTI, ANDREA M | 3643 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | 26d | Pending | Jan 17, 2025 |
| 18715697 | THERMOPLASTIC RESIN FILM | WEYDEMEYER, ALICIA JANE | 1781 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | May 31, 2024 |
| 17764609 | FLEXIBLE POLYAMIDE FILM | FANG, SHANE | 1766 | §103 | Final Rejection | 12d | Pending | Mar 29, 2022 |
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Start Free TrialUnitika Ltd. has 3 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 3 art units and 3 examiners.
Andrea M Valenti has the most, with 1 of Unitika Ltd.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Chemistry & Materials (USPTO Tech Center 1700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
