Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
1 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
C P Converters Inc. is currently addressing 2 pending office actions within the Chemistry & Materials technology area. These matters are handled by 2 distinct examiners located in 2 distinct art units. SANDERS, JAMES M is identified as the busiest examiner, responsible for 1 pending action.
The presence of 2 different art units indicates that the company's innovations are being evaluated under separate technical frameworks. Practitioners must account for this lack of examiner overlap when developing consistent arguments across the 2 examiners. Each application requires a strategy focused on the specific procedural preferences of its assigned art unit.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 1 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.
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 | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| SANDERS, JAMES M | 1 | 55.0% | +27.1% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18799139 | LASER SCORING OF POLYMERIC SUBSTRATES FOR USE IN PACKAGING | SANDERS, JAMES M | 53d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1743 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18799139 | LASER SCORING OF POLYMERIC SUBSTRATES FOR USE IN PACKAGING | SANDERS, JAMES M | 1743 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 53d overdue | Pending | Aug 09, 2024 |
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Start Free TrialC P Converters Inc. has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
James M Sanders has the most, with 1 of C P Converters Inc.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Chemistry & Materials (USPTO Tech Center 1700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
