Technology areas: Chemistry & Materials • Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
3 pending office actions • 3 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Cvd Equipment Corporation is currently managing 3 pending office actions within the Chemistry & Materials technology area. These 3 pending office actions are distributed among 3 distinct examiners, requiring the applicant to address three different individual perspectives. This distribution ensures that no single examiner has a majority influence over the current pending workload.
The prosecution activity is spread across 3 distinct art units, suggesting a diverse technical focus for the 3 pending office actions. REYES, JOSHUA NATHANIEL PI is the busiest examiner for this portfolio, currently overseeing 1 busiest examiner pending office action. This examiner is one of the three individuals responsible for the 3 pending office actions currently active for the company.
For a practitioner, the presence of 3 distinct art units for 3 pending office actions indicates a fragmented technical landscape. Because there are 3 distinct examiners involved, strategies must be tailored to each individual, including REYES, JOSHUA NATHANIEL PI. Monitoring these 3 pending office actions involves tracking progress across three different administrative units within the Chemistry & Materials sector.
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 | 2 (67%) |
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| REYES, JOSHUA NATHANIEL PI | 1 | 42.3% | +50.5% |
| BRATLAND JR, KENNETH A | 1 | 56.2% | +16.3% |
| BURRELL, KATELYNNE RUTH | 1 | 56.5% | -0.4% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18568096 | CONTROLLED NANOMATERIAL MANUFACTURING | BRATLAND JR, KENNETH A | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18840629 | APPARATUS FOR FINE POWDER PARTICLE PROCESSING UTILIZING CENTRIFUGAL CONFINEMENT TO MITIGATE PARTICLE ELUTRIATION | REYES, JOSHUA NATHANIEL PI | 4d overdue |
| 18568096 | CONTROLLED NANOMATERIAL MANUFACTURING | BRATLAND JR, KENNETH A | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1718 | 1 |
| 1714 | 1 |
| 3654 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18840629 | APPARATUS FOR FINE POWDER PARTICLE PROCESSING UTILIZING CENTRIFUGAL CONFINEMENT TO MITIGATE PARTICLE ELUTRIATION | REYES, JOSHUA NATHANIEL PI | 1718 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 4d overdue | Pending | Aug 22, 2024 |
| 18568096 | CONTROLLED NANOMATERIAL MANUFACTURING | BRATLAND JR, KENNETH A | 1714 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Dec 07, 2023 |
| 18098154 | FIBER HANDLING SYSTEM WITH FUZZ DETECTION | BURRELL, KATELYNNE RUTH | 3654 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 18, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialCvd Equipment Corporation has 3 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 3 art units and 3 examiners.
Joshua Nathaniel Pi Reyes has the most, with 1 of Cvd Equipment Corporation's pending office actions.
Mostly Chemistry & Materials (USPTO Tech Center 1700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
