Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Aglaris Ltd. is currently navigating 2 pending office actions within the Chemistry & Materials technology area. These matters are distributed across 2 distinct examiners and 2 distinct art units, indicating a diverse examination environment. This spread across 2 distinct art units suggests that the company's innovations may touch upon different technical sub-specialties within the broader chemistry field.
The busiest examiner for this portfolio is WRIGHT, PATRICIA KATHRYN, who is responsible for 1 pending office action. Because the 2 pending office actions are split between 2 distinct examiners, no single examiner handles all of the current workload. Practitioners should prepare for varied examiner styles given the ratio of pending actions to examiners.
This distribution across 2 distinct examiners and 2 distinct art units for the pending workload reflects a lack of concentration in the prosecution process. While this increases the variety of feedback from the USPTO, it also requires the applicant to manage different examiner-specific preferences simultaneously. The strategy in the Chemistry & Materials area must therefore be flexible enough to accommodate different interpretive approaches across these separate art units.
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 (50%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (50%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| WRIGHT, PATRICIA KATHRYN | 1 | 65.3% | +42.6% |
| MARCHESCHI, MICHAEL A | 1 | 20.0% | +17.9% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17048485 | CELL SEPARATION CHAMBER AND CELL SEPARATION SYSTEM AND METHOD | MARCHESCHI, MICHAEL 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 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17048766 | DISPOSABLE CARTRIDGE COOPERATING WITH A PLATFORM IN A FLEXIBLE SYSTEM FOR HANDLING AND/OR MANIPULATING FLUIDS | WRIGHT, PATRICIA KATHRYN | — |
| 17048485 | CELL SEPARATION CHAMBER AND CELL SEPARATION SYSTEM AND METHOD | MARCHESCHI, MICHAEL A | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1798 | 1 |
| 1796 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17048766 | DISPOSABLE CARTRIDGE COOPERATING WITH A PLATFORM IN A FLEXIBLE SYSTEM FOR HANDLING AND/OR MANIPULATING FLUIDS | WRIGHT, PATRICIA KATHRYN | 1798 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Oct 19, 2020 |
| 17048485 | CELL SEPARATION CHAMBER AND CELL SEPARATION SYSTEM AND METHOD | MARCHESCHI, MICHAEL A | 1796 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Oct 16, 2020 |
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Start Free TrialAglaris Ltd. has 2 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 2 art units and 2 examiners.
Patricia Kathryn Wright has the most, with 1 of Aglaris Ltd.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Chemistry & Materials (USPTO Tech Center 1700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
