Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
1 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
BIXBY INTERNATIONAL CORPORATION operates within the Chemistry & Materials technology area. The company currently has 1 pending office action. This 1 pending office action represents the current focus of the company's patent prosecution efforts.
The examination is conducted by 1 distinct examiner within 1 distinct art unit. WALTERS JR, ROBERT S is the busiest examiner, currently responsible for 1 pending office action. This concentration means that all active intellectual property negotiations are handled by a single individual in a specific technical unit.
For practitioners, the involvement of 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit suggests a narrow technical focus. The outcome of the 1 pending office action will be the primary driver of the portfolio's progress. Navigating the specific requirements of WALTERS JR, ROBERT S is essential for advancing the company's interests in the chemistry field. The centralized nature of the current workload allows for a dedicated strategy tailored to the feedback from this 1 distinct examiner.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| WALTERS JR, ROBERT S | 1 | 51.6% | +50.4% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18341067 | DENTAL ALIGNER | WALTERS JR, ROBERT S | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1717 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18341067 | DENTAL ALIGNER | WALTERS JR, ROBERT S | 1717 | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 26, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialBIXBY INTERNATIONAL CORPORATION has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Robert S Walters Jr. has the most, with 1 of BIXBY INTERNATIONAL CORPORATION's pending office actions.
Mostly Chemistry & Materials (USPTO Tech Center 1700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
