Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
1001297676 Ontario Inc. has 2 pending office actions in the Chemistry & Materials technology area. These actions are distributed across 2 distinct examiners and 2 distinct art units, ensuring that each pending matter is being reviewed by a different official. This distribution suggests that the company's current filings cover distinct technical sub-areas within the broader chemistry sector.
MCGUTHRY BANKS, TIMA MICHELE is the busiest examiner, currently overseeing 1 pending office action. Since there are 2 distinct examiners for 2 pending actions, the workload is perfectly balanced across the portfolio's active cases. No single examiner has a majority of the work, which prevents any one official from having a disproportionate impact on the company's overall patent strategy.
For practitioners, managing 2 pending office actions across 2 distinct art units requires a dual-track approach. Each action must be handled according to the specific standards of its respective examiner and art unit. Because MCGUTHRY BANKS, TIMA MICHELE only handles one of the 2 pending actions, practitioners cannot rely on a single point of contact to resolve all of the company's current prosecution issues.
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 |
|---|---|
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (100%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| MCGUTHRY BANKS, TIMA MICHELE | 1 | 81.6% | +2.8% |
| FIORITO, JAMES A | 1 | 71.6% | +28.0% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18292209 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR RECOVERING METAL FROM BATTERY MATERIALS | MCGUTHRY BANKS, TIMA MICHELE | — |
| 18548781 | A METHOD FOR TARGET METAL REMOVAL VIA SULPHIDE PRECIPITATION | FIORITO, JAMES A | — |
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 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18548781 | A METHOD FOR TARGET METAL REMOVAL VIA SULPHIDE PRECIPITATION | FIORITO, JAMES A | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1733 | 1 |
| 1731 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18292209 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR RECOVERING METAL FROM BATTERY MATERIALS | MCGUTHRY BANKS, TIMA MICHELE | 1733 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 25, 2024 |
| 18548781 | A METHOD FOR TARGET METAL REMOVAL VIA SULPHIDE PRECIPITATION | FIORITO, JAMES A | 1731 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 01, 2023 |
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Start Free Trial1001297676 Ontario Inc. has 2 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 2 art units and 2 examiners.
Tima Michele Mcguthry Banks has the most, with 1 of 1001297676 Ontario Inc.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Chemistry & Materials (USPTO Tech Center 1700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
