Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
1 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Aeronautical Service S R L currently manages 1 pending office action within the Chemistry & Materials technology area. This single active matter is concentrated under a distinct examiner, indicating a highly focused prosecution footprint at this stage. The alignment of the workload within a distinct art unit suggests that the company's current legal challenges are confined to a specific technical niche within the broader chemistry sector.
The busiest examiner for the portfolio is VAN SELL, NATHAN L, who is responsible for the 1 busiest examiner pending action. Because the entire pending workload rests with this individual, the company's immediate prosecution outcomes in this technology area depend entirely on the specific examination style and procedural preferences of this single official. Practitioners should evaluate the examiner's past allowance rates and typical rejection types to better anticipate the trajectory of the current application.
With VAN SELL, NATHAN L overseeing the only active case, the administrative burden of tracking multiple office action timelines is minimized. However, this concentration also means the applicant lacks the opportunity to compare different examiner behaviors within the same art unit for this specific portfolio. Success in this instance requires a direct and effective response to the specific concerns raised in the Chemistry & Materials sector to clear the current backlog.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| VAN SELL, NATHAN L | 1 | 54.5% | +24.8% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18259116 | AIRCRAFT DOOR AND PRODUCTION METHOD | VAN SELL, NATHAN L | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1783 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18259116 | AIRCRAFT DOOR AND PRODUCTION METHOD | VAN SELL, NATHAN L | 1783 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 23, 2023 |
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