Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
1 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Building Machines Inc. currently has 1 pending office action in the Chemistry & Materials technology area. This action is assigned to HOWELL, MARC C, who is the busiest examiner for the company with 1 pending matter. The activity is confined to 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit. This narrow scope characterizes the current state of the company's patent prosecution.
With 1 pending office action assigned to HOWELL, MARC C, the company's prosecution is concentrated under a single examiner. This arrangement within the Chemistry & Materials sector means that the outcome of the current filing depends entirely on the review within 1 distinct art unit. For the company, having 1 distinct examiner simplifies the management of its pending matters but also means there is no diversification across different examiners. The presence of 1 pending action for the busiest examiner confirms that the entire active portfolio is currently being reviewed by the same individual.
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 |
|---|---|
| §102 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| HOWELL, MARC C | 1 | 68.7% | +24.5% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18707860 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR INCREASING MATERIAL FLUIDITY DURING TRANSIT | HOWELL, MARC C | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1774 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18707860 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR INCREASING MATERIAL FLUIDITY DURING TRANSIT | HOWELL, MARC C | 1774 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 06, 2024 |
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Start Free TrialBuilding Machines Inc. has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Marc C Howell has the most, with 1 of Building Machines Inc.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Chemistry & Materials (USPTO Tech Center 1700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
