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
BIO-RAD LABORATORIES, INC. currently oversees 1 pending office action within the Chemistry & Materials technology area. This action is assigned to a distinct examiner and is being reviewed in a single art unit. The company's active prosecution is currently limited to this single administrative channel. This focus allows the applicant to concentrate their efforts on meeting the specific requirements of one examination team.
KASS, BENJAMIN JOSEPH is the busiest examiner for this portfolio, with 1 pending office action currently active. This accounts for the 1 pending office action total for the company. The outcome of this chemistry patent application depends on the individual review of this examiner. Practitioners should analyze the examiner's history in the Chemistry & Materials area to prepare effective responses to any technical rejections.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 1 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.
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) | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| KASS, BENJAMIN JOSEPH | 1 | 31.1% | +64.4% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17766545 | FLUID CONTAINER DEVICE COMPRISING A SEPTUM MEMBER, AND METHOD OF DELIVERING FLUID FROM SUCH A DEVICE | KASS, BENJAMIN JOSEPH | 18d overdue |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17766545 | FLUID CONTAINER DEVICE COMPRISING A SEPTUM MEMBER, AND METHOD OF DELIVERING FLUID FROM SUCH A DEVICE | KASS, BENJAMIN JOSEPH | 18d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1798 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17766545 | FLUID CONTAINER DEVICE COMPRISING A SEPTUM MEMBER, AND METHOD OF DELIVERING FLUID FROM SUCH A DEVICE | KASS, BENJAMIN JOSEPH | 1798 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 18d overdue | Pending | Apr 05, 2022 |
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Start Free TrialBIO-RAD LABORATORIES, INC. has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Benjamin Joseph Kass has the most, with 1 of BIO-RAD LABORATORIES, INC.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Chemistry & Materials (USPTO Tech Center 1700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
