Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Calix Ltd. has 2 pending office actions in Chemistry & Materials. The matters are assigned to 2 distinct examiners across 2 distinct art units, indicating that the pending work is divided both by examiner and by technical examination group.
SMOOT, MORIAH SIMONE MCMIL is the busiest examiner with 1 pending action. Neither examiner controls the full docket, so prosecution responses should be developed separately while maintaining a consistent portfolio position on claim scope and technical disclosures.
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 (50%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (50%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| SMOOT, MORIAH SIMONE MCMIL | 1 | 64.2% | +7.5% |
| JOHNSON, CHRISTINA ANN | 1 | 41.3% | -13.4% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18701877 | PROCESSES AND METHODS FOR THE PRODUCTION OF IRON AND STEEL | SMOOT, MORIAH SIMONE MCMIL | 26d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1733 | 1 |
| 1742 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18701877 | PROCESSES AND METHODS FOR THE PRODUCTION OF IRON AND STEEL | SMOOT, MORIAH SIMONE MCMIL | 1733 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | 26d | Pending | Apr 16, 2024 |
| 17610399 | A System and Method for the Production of High Strength Materials | JOHNSON, CHRISTINA ANN | 1742 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 10, 2021 |
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Start Free TrialCalix Ltd. has 2 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 2 art units and 2 examiners.
Moriah Simone Mcmil Smoot has the most, with 1 of Calix Ltd.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Chemistry & Materials (USPTO Tech Center 1700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
