Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
1 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
A-Lok Products Inc. currently manages 1 pending office action within the Chemistry & Materials technology area. This 1 active matter is assigned to 1 distinct examiner working within 1 distinct art unit. The presence of 1 distinct art unit suggests a specific technical focus for the company's current patenting efforts. Practitioners should note that with 1 distinct art unit involved, the prosecution strategy does not need to account for varying internal policies across different USPTO departments.
GAITONDE, MEGHA MEHTA is identified as the busiest examiner for this portfolio, currently handling 1 busiest examiner pending office action. Because the total number of pending office actions is 1, this 1 examiner is responsible for the company's active prosecution workload. This relationship between the total workload and 1 individual means that the outcome of this specific interaction will define the current success rate for the Chemistry & Materials portfolio. The 1 pending office action indicates the current scale of the company's engagement with the patent office.
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 | 1 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| GAITONDE, MEGHA MEHTA | 1 | 40.5% | +35.6% |
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 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18514371 | MULTI-DIMENSIONAL SPACER | GAITONDE, MEGHA MEHTA | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1781 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18514371 | MULTI-DIMENSIONAL SPACER | GAITONDE, MEGHA MEHTA | 1781 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Nov 20, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialA-Lok Products Inc. has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Megha Mehta Gaitonde has the most, with 1 of A-Lok Products Inc.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Chemistry & Materials (USPTO Tech Center 1700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
