Technology areas: Chemistry & Materials • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
3 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 8 patents granted in the last 365 days
Clarapath Inc. has 3 pending office actions in Chemistry & Materials. The matters involve 2 distinct examiners and 2 distinct art units, indicating some concentration across the listed examination assignments.
SHI, TINGCHEN is the busiest examiner, with 2 pending matters. Examiner-specific coordination may therefore improve consistency in claim amendments and response positions. The remaining action should still be evaluated independently because it has a separate examiner and art-unit setting.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 2 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 |
|---|---|
| §101 + other | 1 (33%) |
| §103 only | 1 (33%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (33%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| SHI, TINGCHEN | 2 | 69.4% | +22.7% |
| LEE, LAURA MICHELLE | 1 | 54.8% | +31.1% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18390055 | Facing and Quality Control in Microtomy | SHI, TINGCHEN | 99d overdue |
| 18873045 | Automated Sample Block Geometry Detection System | LEE, LAURA MICHELLE | — |
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 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18390055 | Facing and Quality Control in Microtomy | SHI, TINGCHEN | 99d overdue |
| 17992894 | AUTOMATED TISSUE SECTION SYSTEM WITH THICKNESS CONSISTENCY CONTROLS | SHI, TINGCHEN | 74d overdue |
| 18873045 | Automated Sample Block Geometry Detection System | LEE, LAURA MICHELLE | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1796 | 2 |
| 3724 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18873045 | Automated Sample Block Geometry Detection System | LEE, LAURA MICHELLE | 3724 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 09, 2024 |
| 18390055 | Facing and Quality Control in Microtomy | SHI, TINGCHEN | 1796 | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | 99d overdue | Pending | Dec 20, 2023 |
| 17992894 | AUTOMATED TISSUE SECTION SYSTEM WITH THICKNESS CONSISTENCY CONTROLS | SHI, TINGCHEN | 1796 | §103 | Final Rejection | 74d overdue | Pending | Nov 22, 2022 |
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Start Free TrialClarapath Inc. has 3 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 2 art units and 2 examiners.
Tingchen Shi has the most, with 2 of Clarapath Inc.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Chemistry & Materials (USPTO Tech Center 1700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
