Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
3 pending office actions • 3 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 6 patents granted in the last 365 days
Aspire North America LLC holds 3 pending office actions in the Chemistry & Materials technology area. The prosecution of these matters involves 3 distinct examiners and 3 distinct art units. This distribution shows that each of the pending office actions is being handled by a different examiner in a different administrative unit. The use of 3 distinct art units suggests that the company's chemistry-related filings cover a variety of specific technical classifications.
CULBERT, COURTNEY GUENTHER is the busiest examiner for the portfolio, with 1 pending office action. This count is consistent across the examiners, as each is responsible for a single pending matter. With 3 pending office actions total, the workload is perfectly distributed, meaning no single examiner or art unit has a concentrated influence over the portfolio. This ratio across examiners indicates a diverse prosecution landscape for the company's current chemistry applications.
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 |
|---|---|
| §102 only | 1 (33%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (67%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| CULBERT, COURTNEY GUENTHER | 1 | 27.8% | +4.3% |
| LOUIE, PHILIP Y | 1 | 60.3% | +36.3% |
| YAARY, ERIC | 1 | 73.8% | +2.5% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18585947 | ELECTRONIC CIGARETTE PACKAGE AND ELECTRONIC CIGARETTE E-LIQUID FILLING PROCESS | CULBERT, COURTNEY GUENTHER | — |
| 18532620 | MOUTHPIECE COVER | LOUIE, PHILIP Y | — |
| 18210627 | ATOMIZATION TUBE | YAARY, ERIC | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18532620 | MOUTHPIECE COVER | LOUIE, PHILIP Y | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 4100 | 1 |
| 1755 | 1 |
| 1700 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18585947 | ELECTRONIC CIGARETTE PACKAGE AND ELECTRONIC CIGARETTE E-LIQUID FILLING PROCESS | CULBERT, COURTNEY GUENTHER | 4100 | §102Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 23, 2024 |
| 18532620 | MOUTHPIECE COVER | LOUIE, PHILIP Y | 1755 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 07, 2023 |
| 18210627 | ATOMIZATION TUBE | YAARY, ERIC | 1700 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 15, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialAspire North America LLC has 3 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 3 art units and 3 examiners.
Courtney Guenther Culbert has the most, with 1 of Aspire North America LLC's pending office actions.
Mostly Chemistry & Materials (USPTO Tech Center 1700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
