Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
1 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Autumn Inc. is managing 1 pending office action in the Chemistry & Materials technology area. This activity is confined to 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit, indicating a streamlined prosecution phase for the company's current intellectual property assets. Such a focused approach often allows for a more direct line of communication with the patent office regarding specific chemical or material advancements without the need to coordinate across multiple departments.
The busiest examiner, CATHERINE A SIMONE, is assigned 1 pending office action. This accounts for the total workload across the portfolio. The concentration in 1 art unit suggests that the company is currently pursuing protection for a specific chemical innovation rather than a broad array of technologies, which may simplify the process of navigating the technical requirements and examination standards of that particular unit during the response phase of prosecution.
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 |
|---|---|
| §112 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| SIMONE, CATHERINE A | 1 | 73.3% | +22.9% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17568976 | COMPOSITE ROD AND ITS PROCESSING METHOD | SIMONE, CATHERINE A | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1781 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17568976 | COMPOSITE ROD AND ITS PROCESSING METHOD | SIMONE, CATHERINE A | 1781 | §112Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 05, 2022 |
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Start Free TrialAutumn Inc. has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Catherine A Simone has the most, with 1 of Autumn Inc.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Chemistry & Materials (USPTO Tech Center 1700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
