Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
1 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Bkon LLC is currently managing a patent portfolio within the Chemistry & Materials technology area. The company has 1 pending office action, which is the primary focus of its current prosecution activity. This 1 pending office action indicates a specific effort to secure intellectual property rights for its chemical technologies. In the Chemistry & Materials field, clear patent protection is vital for maintaining a competitive position and protecting technical innovations.
The prosecution of these assets is handled by 1 distinct examiner working within 1 distinct art unit. This indicates that the technical review is concentrated within a single administrative unit at the patent office. Such a focused examination environment means that the applicant only needs to navigate the requirements of 1 distinct art unit. This can simplify the prosecution process by ensuring a consistent technical evaluation of the applications by the 1 distinct examiner assigned.
AXTELL, ASHLEY is the busiest examiner for the portfolio, currently overseeing 1 busiest examiner pending office action. Since this examiner is responsible for the only pending matter, the success of the current prosecution depends on addressing the specific concerns of this official. Practitioners can focus their efforts on the examination style of AXTELL, ASHLEY to move the 1 busiest examiner pending office action forward. This concentration of work under 1 distinct examiner allows for a very targeted legal strategy.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| AXTELL, ASHLEY | 1 | 13.2% | +25.7% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17813717 | VACUUM INFUSION MACHINE AND VACUUM INFUSION METHOD | AXTELL, ASHLEY | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17813717 | VACUUM INFUSION MACHINE AND VACUUM INFUSION METHOD | AXTELL, ASHLEY | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1792 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17813717 | VACUUM INFUSION MACHINE AND VACUUM INFUSION METHOD | AXTELL, ASHLEY | 1792 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 20, 2022 |
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Start Free TrialBkon LLC has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Ashley Axtell has the most, with 1 of Bkon LLC's pending office actions.
Mostly Chemistry & Materials (USPTO Tech Center 1700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
