Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
1 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Asset Guard Products Inc. has 1 pending office action in the Chemistry & Materials technology area. This single action is being handled by 1 distinct examiner, RICE, STEVEN. The company's active prosecution is concentrated within 1 distinct art unit, reflecting a targeted technical scope for its current material filings. This allows for a prosecution strategy that is highly specific to the requirements of that art unit.
RICE, STEVEN is the busiest examiner for the portfolio, accounting for 1 busiest examiner pending action. This represents the entirety of the company's current workload at the patent office. The alignment of 1 pending office action with 1 distinct examiner indicates a centralized prosecution effort. This structure allows the company to focus its resources on a single set of examiner feedback and expectations.
The involvement of only 1 distinct art unit means the company is operating within a specific regulatory and technical environment. With 1 pending office action, the portfolio is currently in a manageable and focused state. Practitioners can work closely with RICE, STEVEN to address the specific concerns raised in the action. This profile illustrates a company with a very specialized focus within the broader chemistry sector.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| RICE, STEVEN | 1 | 39.3% | +43.7% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18766174 | MULTI-LAYERED ELASTOMER-BASED LINERS | RICE, STEVEN | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1787 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18766174 | MULTI-LAYERED ELASTOMER-BASED LINERS | RICE, STEVEN | 1787 | §103Other | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jul 08, 2024 |
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Start Free TrialAsset Guard Products Inc. has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Steven Rice has the most, with 1 of Asset Guard Products Inc.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Chemistry & Materials (USPTO Tech Center 1700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
