Technology areas: Chemistry & Materials • Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics
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
Carbonip Technologies Inc. currently has 2 pending office actions within the Chemistry & Materials technology area. These 2 actions are located in 2 distinct art units, showing that even with a very small number of pending cases, the company's work spans different technical domains. Each of the actions is being reviewed by a different person, as there are 2 distinct examiners involved in the portfolio.
WALTERS JR, ROBERT S is listed as the busiest examiner, although they are only handling 1 pending office action. Because there are 2 total pending actions, the individual approach of WALTERS JR, ROBERT S is just as important as the approach of the other examiner involved in the Chemistry & Materials filings. This distribution requires a versatile strategy that can address two separate sets of examiner expectations.
The distribution of 2 pending office actions across 2 distinct art units and the distinct examiners indicates a lack of concentration in the company's current prosecution. Every pending matter is being handled in a different technical environment by a different individual. For a company with only 2 actions, the prosecution team must prepare for separate sets of art unit requirements simultaneously while maintaining a focused dialogue with each official.
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 (50%) |
| §112 only | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| WALTERS JR, ROBERT S | 1 | 51.6% | +50.4% |
| MILAKOVICH, NATHAN J | 1 | 78.0% | +19.0% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19531511 | SULFUR CATHODES, SULFUR CATHODE MATERIALS, AND APPARATUS AND METHODS FOR MAKING SAME | WALTERS JR, ROBERT S | — |
| 18841381 | METAL-DOPED ACTIVATED CARBON | MILAKOVICH, NATHAN J | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1717 | 1 |
| 2848 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19531511 | SULFUR CATHODES, SULFUR CATHODE MATERIALS, AND APPARATUS AND METHODS FOR MAKING SAME | WALTERS JR, ROBERT S | 1717 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 05, 2026 |
| 18841381 | METAL-DOPED ACTIVATED CARBON | MILAKOVICH, NATHAN J | 2848 | §112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Aug 25, 2024 |
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Start Free TrialCarbonip Technologies Inc. has 2 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 2 art units and 2 examiners.
Robert S Walters Jr. has the most, with 1 of Carbonip Technologies Inc.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Chemistry & Materials (USPTO Tech Center 1700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
