Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
1 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Cfs North America LLC maintains a patent portfolio concentrated in the Chemistry & Materials technology area. The portfolio currently shows 1 pending office action. This workload is distributed across 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit, indicating a highly specific area of examination for the company's current filings. This concentration suggests that the company's current legal efforts are focused on a specific technical advancement within the chemistry field.
LARK JULIA MORENO is identified as the busiest examiner for the portfolio, responsible for 1 busiest examiner pending action. This action accounts for all pending activity reported in the data. With 1 distinct examiner involved, the prosecution experience is currently limited to a point of contact within the patent office's Chemistry & Materials division. The involvement of 1 distinct art unit further confirms that the pending application is being reviewed within a narrow technical specialty. This centralized prosecution allows for a direct assessment of the examiner's specific requirements and expectations.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| MORENO, LARK JULIA | 1 | 0.0% | +0.0% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17950700 | NATURAL SMOKE FLAVOR WITH ANTIOXIDANT PROPERTIES FOR USE IN PET FOODS AND/OR PET FOOD INGREDIENTS | MORENO, LARK JULIA | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1793 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17950700 | NATURAL SMOKE FLAVOR WITH ANTIOXIDANT PROPERTIES FOR USE IN PET FOODS AND/OR PET FOOD INGREDIENTS | MORENO, LARK JULIA | 1793 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Sep 22, 2022 |
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Start Free TrialCfs North America LLC has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Lark Julia Moreno has the most, with 1 of Cfs North America LLC's pending office actions.
Mostly Chemistry & Materials (USPTO Tech Center 1700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
