Technology areas: Chemistry & Materials • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
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
Ctr Lda has 2 pending office actions in Chemistry & Materials. The matters are assigned to 2 distinct examiners and 2 distinct art units, indicating that the pending work is divided across separate examination contexts.
YOO, REGINA M is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending matter. That figure represents one of the two pending assignments. Counsel should coordinate the responses for consistent chemical terminology while tailoring claim amendments to the respective examiner and art unit.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| YOO, REGINA M | 1 | 63.8% | +5.8% |
| CHAMBERS, JOHN MICHAEL | 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 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18548397 | Device and Method for Dispensing Volatile Substances | YOO, REGINA M | 16d |
| 18259149 | Device and method for dispensing and/or diffusing volatile substances, especially for dispensing and/or diffusing fragrances and/or active substances | CHAMBERS, JOHN MICHAEL | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1758 | 1 |
| 3761 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18548397 | Device and Method for Dispensing Volatile Substances | YOO, REGINA M | 1758 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 16d | Pending | Aug 30, 2023 |
| 18259149 | Device and method for dispensing and/or diffusing volatile substances, especially for dispensing and/or diffusing fragrances and/or active substances | CHAMBERS, JOHN MICHAEL | 3761 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jun 23, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialCtr Lda has 2 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 2 art units and 2 examiners.
Regina M Yoo has the most, with 1 of Ctr Lda's pending office actions.
Mostly Chemistry & Materials (USPTO Tech Center 1700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
