Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
1 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
C-Therm Technologies Ltd. holds a company patent portfolio in the Chemistry & Materials technology area. The portfolio currently has 1 pending office action, which is the only active prosecution matter for the company. This action is being reviewed by 1 distinct examiner, LEONG, NATHAN T. As the busiest examiner for the portfolio, LEONG, NATHAN T is managing 1 busiest examiner pending action, which represents the full scope of the company's current engagement with the patent office.
The prosecution is situated within 1 distinct art unit, suggesting a focused technical area for the company's materials science innovations. For a practitioner, this concentration means that the success of the company's current patent strategy is entirely dependent on the judgment of LEONG, NATHAN T. The lack of diversity in examiners or art units means that there is no opportunity to leverage different examination styles or departmental norms. The 1 pending office action is the single point of focus within the 1 distinct art unit. Consequently, the interaction with the distinct examiner is the most critical factor for the company's immediate patent outcomes.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| LEONG, NATHAN T | 1 | 71.4% | +23.9% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18537052 | MONITORING MATERIALS IN DISPENSING EQUIPMENT | LEONG, NATHAN T | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18537052 | MONITORING MATERIALS IN DISPENSING EQUIPMENT | LEONG, NATHAN T | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1717 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18537052 | MONITORING MATERIALS IN DISPENSING EQUIPMENT | LEONG, NATHAN T | 1717 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 12, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialC-Therm Technologies Ltd. has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Nathan T Leong has the most, with 1 of C-Therm Technologies Ltd.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Chemistry & Materials (USPTO Tech Center 1700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
