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
Comas - Costruzioni Macchine Speciali - S P A maintains a company patent portfolio in the Chemistry & Materials technology area with 2 pending office actions. These 2 actions are being handled by 2 distinct examiners, but both are situated within 1 distinct art unit. This structure indicates that the company's current patent applications are technically related enough to be grouped together by the USPTO, yet they are being scrutinized by different sets of eyes. This provides the benefit of a consistent art unit environment while allowing for different examiner perspectives.
The busiest examiner for this portfolio is SZUMIGALSKI, NICOLE ASHLEY, who has 1 busiest examiner pending case. With a total of 2 pending office actions, the workload is split between the 2 distinct examiners. This prevents any single examiner from becoming a bottleneck for the company's intellectual property goals. Practitioners should focus on the fact that since both examiners are in 1 distinct art unit, the legal arguments and technical disclosures may be subject to similar internal policies, even if SZUMIGALSKI, NICOLE ASHLEY has her own specific procedural preferences.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| SZUMIGALSKI, NICOLE ASHLEY | 1 | 55.3% | +25.6% |
| DEZENDORF, MORGAN FAITH | 1 | 26.7% | +50.0% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17910966 | METHOD AND PLANT FOR PROCESSING RECONSTITUTED TOBACCO | DEZENDORF, MORGAN FAITH | 49d overdue |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17910966 | METHOD AND PLANT FOR PROCESSING RECONSTITUTED TOBACCO | DEZENDORF, MORGAN FAITH | 49d overdue |
| 17910998 | METHOD OF PRODUCING HOMOGENEOUS SHEETS OF NICOTINE-FREE VEGETABLE FIBERS | SZUMIGALSKI, NICOLE ASHLEY | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1755 | 2 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17910998 | METHOD OF PRODUCING HOMOGENEOUS SHEETS OF NICOTINE-FREE VEGETABLE FIBERS | SZUMIGALSKI, NICOLE ASHLEY | 1755 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Sep 12, 2022 |
| 17910966 | METHOD AND PLANT FOR PROCESSING RECONSTITUTED TOBACCO | DEZENDORF, MORGAN FAITH | 1755 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 49d overdue | Pending | Sep 12, 2022 |
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Start Free TrialComas - Costruzioni Macchine Speciali - S P A has 2 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 2 examiners.
Nicole Ashley Szumigalski has the most, with 1 of Comas - Costruzioni Macchine Speciali - S P A's pending office actions.
Mostly Chemistry & Materials (USPTO Tech Center 1700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
