Technology areas: Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals • Chemistry & Materials
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Atomis Inc. currently manages 2 pending office actions within the Chemistry & Materials technology area. These matters are distributed across 2 distinct art units, which suggests the portfolio covers diverse technical sub-sectors within the broader materials science field. The involvement of 2 distinct examiners indicates that the prosecution process is not centralized under a single individual, potentially requiring different advocacy approaches for each application. This distribution across 2 distinct art units may also imply that the company is navigating different sets of examination guidelines within the patent office.
The examiner HOPKINS, ROBERT A is currently the busiest examiner for this portfolio, holding 1 pending office action. While this individual manages 1 pending office action, the total volume of 2 pending office actions remains low, suggesting a manageable prosecution pipeline. Because there are 2 distinct examiners for only 2 pending office actions, the company experiences a high ratio of examiners to active cases. This relationship between the 2 pending office actions and the 2 distinct examiners means that no single examiner's habits will dominate the overall prosecution results for the current Chemistry & Materials filings.
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 | 2 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| HOPKINS, ROBERT A | 1 | 84.5% | +7.6% |
| HOU, FRANK S | 1 | 67.8% | +36.7% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18692389 | ADSORPTION ELEMENT, HUMIDITY CONTROL APPARATUS, AND ATMOSPHERIC WATER GENERATOR | HOPKINS, ROBERT 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 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17610160 | METHOD FOR PRODUCING METAL-ORGANIC FRAMEWORKS | HOU, FRANK S | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1776 | 1 |
| 1692 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18692389 | ADSORPTION ELEMENT, HUMIDITY CONTROL APPARATUS, AND ATMOSPHERIC WATER GENERATOR | HOPKINS, ROBERT A | 1776 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Mar 15, 2024 |
| 17610160 | METHOD FOR PRODUCING METAL-ORGANIC FRAMEWORKS | HOU, FRANK S | 1692 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 10, 2021 |
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Start Free TrialAtomis Inc. has 2 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 2 art units and 2 examiners.
Robert A Hopkins has the most, with 1 of Atomis Inc.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Chemistry & Materials (USPTO Tech Center 1700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
