Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
2 pending office actions • 1 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Cleanfiber Inc. maintains a portfolio with 2 pending office actions focused in the Chemistry & Materials technology area. These matters are situated within 1 distinct art unit, which centralizes the company's legal efforts within a specific administrative division of the patent office. The prosecution involves 2 distinct examiners, meaning each pending action is being reviewed by a different individual.
VERA, ELISA H is the busiest examiner for this portfolio, holding 1 pending office action. The concentration in the identified art unit allows for a specialized approach to the Chemistry & Materials filings. Practitioners can expect the examiners to apply the specific standards of that single art unit. The presence of the busiest examiner shows an even distribution of the workload across the identified personnel for the active matters.
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) | 2 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| VERA, ELISA H | 1 | 72.4% | +26.3% |
| CASE, SARAH CATHERINE | 1 | 41.1% | +50.8% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18896831 | CELLULOSE-BASED INSULATION AND METHODS OF MAKING THE SAME | VERA, ELISA H | — |
| 18290202 | HYBRID FIRE RETARDANT INSULATION AND METHOD OF MAKING THE SAME | CASE, SARAH CATHERINE | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18896831 | CELLULOSE-BASED INSULATION AND METHODS OF MAKING THE SAME | VERA, ELISA H | — |
| 18290202 | HYBRID FIRE RETARDANT INSULATION AND METHOD OF MAKING THE SAME | CASE, SARAH CATHERINE | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1748 | 2 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18896831 | CELLULOSE-BASED INSULATION AND METHODS OF MAKING THE SAME | VERA, ELISA H | 1748 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 25, 2024 |
| 18290202 | HYBRID FIRE RETARDANT INSULATION AND METHOD OF MAKING THE SAME | CASE, SARAH CATHERINE | 1748 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 10, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialCleanfiber Inc. has 2 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 2 examiners.
Elisa H Vera has the most, with 1 of Cleanfiber Inc.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Chemistry & Materials (USPTO Tech Center 1700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
