Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
4 pending office actions • 2 art units • 4 examiners • 0 of 4 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Atmospheric Plasma Solutions, Inc. is currently active in the Chemistry & Materials technology area, managing 3 pending office actions. These matters are assigned to 3 distinct examiners, which provides a variety of individual perspectives on the company's chemical and material claims. Despite the involvement of multiple examiners, the prosecution is entirely concentrated within 1 distinct art unit, suggesting a very specific technical focus for the company's current filings.
The busiest examiner for this portfolio is SATHIRAJU, SRINIVAS, who is currently overseeing 1 pending office action. This distribution shows that each of the 3 pending office actions is being handled by a different examiner, even though they all reside within the same art unit. For practitioners, the concentration in a single art unit means that the prior art and technical standards will likely be consistent across all matters. However, the use of 3 distinct examiners requires a strategy that can adapt to different personal preferences and procedural styles while maintaining a consistent technical argument within that specific art unit.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 3 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.
Every pending office action with a known statutory deadline, placed on a days-until-due axis. Dots left of Today are overdue; the further right, the more runway. Cases that share a deadline window stack vertically. 3 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.
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 |
|---|---|
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 3 (75%) |
| No statute on record | 1 (25%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| SATHIRAJU, SRINIVAS | 1 | 89.0% | +5.7% |
| TALBERT, ERIC MICHAEL | 1 | 22.2% | +55.6% |
| YU, YUECHUAN | 1 | 66.4% | +19.7% |
| BAREFORD, KATHERINE A | 1 | 13.9% | +28.6% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 16124754 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PROMOTING ADHESION OF ARC-SPRAY COATINGS | BAREFORD, KATHERINE A | 281d overdue |
| 17288070 | PLASMA SOURCE AND METHOD FOR PREPARING AND COATING SURFACES USING ATMOSPHERIC PLASMA PRESSURE WAVES | YU, YUECHUAN | 32d overdue |
| 17911708 | ATMOSPHERIC PLASMA FILTER | TALBERT, ERIC MICHAEL | 27d |
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 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 16124754 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PROMOTING ADHESION OF ARC-SPRAY COATINGS | BAREFORD, KATHERINE A | 281d overdue |
| 17288070 | PLASMA SOURCE AND METHOD FOR PREPARING AND COATING SURFACES USING ATMOSPHERIC PLASMA PRESSURE WAVES | YU, YUECHUAN | 32d overdue |
| 17911708 | ATMOSPHERIC PLASMA FILTER | TALBERT, ERIC MICHAEL | 27d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1718 | 2 |
| 1758 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19083386 | FREQUENCY CHIRP RESONANT OPTIMAL PLASMA IGNITION METHOD | SATHIRAJU, SRINIVAS | — | Other | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Mar 18, 2025 |
| 17911708 | ATMOSPHERIC PLASMA FILTER | TALBERT, ERIC MICHAEL | 1758 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 27d | Pending | Sep 15, 2022 |
| 17288070 | PLASMA SOURCE AND METHOD FOR PREPARING AND COATING SURFACES USING ATMOSPHERIC PLASMA PRESSURE WAVES | YU, YUECHUAN | 1718 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 32d overdue | Pending | Apr 23, 2021 |
| 16124754 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PROMOTING ADHESION OF ARC-SPRAY COATINGS | BAREFORD, KATHERINE A | 1718 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 281d overdue | Pending | Sep 07, 2018 |
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Start Free TrialAtmospheric Plasma Solutions, Inc. has 4 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 2 art units and 4 examiners.
Srinivas Sathiraju has the most, with 1 of Atmospheric Plasma Solutions, Inc.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Chemistry & Materials (USPTO Tech Center 1700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
