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
Biofouling Technologies Inc. currently has 2 pending office actions within the Chemistry & Materials technology area. These actions are assigned to distinct examiners, indicating that each examiner is reviewing a separate application. The portfolio is also split across distinct art units, which suggests that the company's chemistry-related innovations are diverse.
GERMAIN, ADAM ADRIEN is identified as the busiest examiner for the portfolio, with 1 pending office action. This accounts for a portion of the active workload. The other pending action is handled by the other examiner. This distribution shows that no single examiner or art unit is handling the entirety of the company's current workload.
The 2 pending office actions represent the current active pipeline for Biofouling Technologies Inc. in the Chemistry & Materials sector. Because there are distinct art units involved, the company is likely facing different examination criteria or technical focuses for each matter. This structure requires the applicant to manage separate examiner relationships simultaneously.
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) | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| GERMAIN, ADAM ADRIEN | 1 | 35.0% | +10.2% |
| PHAN, DOAN THI-THUC | 1 | 42.8% | +47.6% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19022676 | BIOFOULING PROTECTION OF ELEVATED VOLUME/VELOCITY FLOWS | GERMAIN, ADAM ADRIEN | — |
| 17472456 | BIOFOULING PROTECTIVE ENCLOSURES | PHAN, DOAN THI-THUC | — |
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 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19022676 | BIOFOULING PROTECTION OF ELEVATED VOLUME/VELOCITY FLOWS | GERMAIN, ADAM ADRIEN | — |
| 17472456 | BIOFOULING PROTECTIVE ENCLOSURES | PHAN, DOAN THI-THUC | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1772 | 1 |
| 1613 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19022676 | BIOFOULING PROTECTION OF ELEVATED VOLUME/VELOCITY FLOWS | GERMAIN, ADAM ADRIEN | 1772 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 15, 2025 |
| 17472456 | BIOFOULING PROTECTIVE ENCLOSURES | PHAN, DOAN THI-THUC | 1613 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Sep 10, 2021 |
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Start Free TrialBiofouling Technologies Inc. has 2 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 2 art units and 2 examiners.
Adam Adrien Germain has the most, with 1 of Biofouling Technologies Inc.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Chemistry & Materials (USPTO Tech Center 1700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
