Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
1 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 3 patents granted in the last 365 days
Dansons US LLC currently has 1 pending office action in the Chemistry & Materials technology area. This single case represents the entirety of the company's current pending workload. The portfolio is assigned to 1 distinct examiner and a single art unit. Because there is only a single pending action, there is no distribution of cases across different reviewers.
LEFF, STEVEN N is the busiest examiner for this portfolio. This individual is responsible for the 1 pending office action currently active. This creates a situation where the prosecution outcome for the company is dependent on the decisions of a single person within a single administrative unit. There is no diversification of examiners to mitigate the risk of a difficult individual review.
For a patent practitioner, this data indicates that the strategy for Dansons US LLC must be highly specific to the preferences of LEFF, STEVEN N. Since the distinct art units count is also a single unit, the practitioner should also look at the specific guidelines and trends of that unit. The lack of other pending actions means there are no other examiners to compare against within this specific technology area for this client.
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) | 1 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| LEFF, STEVEN N | 1 | 41.4% | +8.4% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17981710 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR CONTROLLING GRILLING APPLIANCES VIA EDGE COMPUTING PLATFORMS | LEFF, STEVEN N | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1792 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17981710 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR CONTROLLING GRILLING APPLIANCES VIA EDGE COMPUTING PLATFORMS | LEFF, STEVEN N | 1792 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 07, 2022 |
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Start Free TrialDansons US LLC has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Steven N Leff has the most, with 1 of Dansons US LLC's pending office actions.
Mostly Chemistry & Materials (USPTO Tech Center 1700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
