Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
2 pending office actions • 1 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Blotting Innovations Inc. has 2 pending office actions in the Chemistry & Materials technology area. Both actions are located within 1 distinct art unit, indicating a concentrated technical focus. These matters are assigned to 2 distinct examiners, with BALL, JOHN C serving as the busiest examiner with 1 pending office action. This distribution requires separate examiner engagement for each of the 2 pending matters within the same art unit.
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 |
|---|---|
| §103 only | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| BALL, JOHN C | 1 | 78.8% | +16.1% |
| QIAN, SHIZHI | 1 | 62.0% | +46.2% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19045930 | HIGH-THROUGHPUT MULTIPLEXING ELECTROPHORETIC GEL APPARATUS AND RELATED METHODS | BALL, JOHN C | — |
| 18437640 | HIGH-THROUGHPUT MULTIPLEXING ELECTROPHORETIC GEL APPARATUS AND RELATED METHODS | QIAN, SHIZHI | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1795 | 2 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19045930 | HIGH-THROUGHPUT MULTIPLEXING ELECTROPHORETIC GEL APPARATUS AND RELATED METHODS | BALL, JOHN C | 1795 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 05, 2025 |
| 18437640 | HIGH-THROUGHPUT MULTIPLEXING ELECTROPHORETIC GEL APPARATUS AND RELATED METHODS | QIAN, SHIZHI | 1795 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Feb 09, 2024 |
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Start Free TrialBlotting Innovations Inc. has 2 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 2 examiners.
John C Ball has the most, with 1 of Blotting Innovations Inc.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Chemistry & Materials (USPTO Tech Center 1700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
