Prosecution Insights
Last updated: August 16, 2026

Elemental Scientific Inc.

5 pending office actions • 4 art units • 5 examiners • 0 of 5 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 11 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

5
Total Pending OAs
5
Non-Final OAs
0
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 2 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

1
Overdue
0
Due this week
1
Due this month
0
Due in next 60 days
0
Due later

Case Difficulty Mix

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.

2
Hard (40%)
3
Medium (60%)
0
Easy (0%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only3 (60%)
Multi-statute (no §101)2 (40%)

Industry Mix

How the docket's pending cases split across USPTO tech-center bands.

3
Life Sciences
60% of docket
0
Information Tech
0% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
1
Semiconductors
20% of docket
0
Mechanical / Eng
0% of docket
1
Business / Other
20% of docket

Time-on-OA Estimate

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.

50 h
Manual time on pending OAs
10 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
18 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
0.4 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
MASKELL, MICHAEL P 1 86.1% +9.2%
HYUN, PAUL SANG HWA 1 69.7% +36.4%
NGUYEN, HENRY H 1 63.8% +36.9%
GASSEN, CHRISTOPHER J 1 79.4% +24.9%
THOMPSON, CURTIS A 1 61.9% +50.1%

Hard Cases (2)

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 #TitleExaminerDue in
18756535 AUTOMATED SYSTEM FOR ONLINE DETECTION OF ORGANIC MOLECULAR IMPURITIES IN SEMICONDUCTOR GRADE CHEMICALS MASKELL, MICHAEL P
18480880 AUTOSAMPLER SYSTEM WITH MULTI-LUMEN PROBE NGUYEN, HENRY H

Interview Candidates (4)

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 4 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18205131 AUTOMATED INLINE NANOPARTICLE STANDARD MATERIAL ADDITION GASSEN, CHRISTOPHER J 17d overdue
17973947 AUTOMATED SYSTEM FOR REMOTE CHEMICAL SAMPLE COLLECTION WITH SAFE ISOLATION OF SAMPLE VESSEL THOMPSON, CURTIS A 9d
18436198 SYSTEM FOR COLLECTING LIQUID SAMPLES FROM A DISTANCE HYUN, PAUL SANG HWA
18480880 AUTOSAMPLER SYSTEM WITH MULTI-LUMEN PROBE NGUYEN, HENRY H

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
1796 1
1758 1
2881 1
1798 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18756535 AUTOMATED SYSTEM FOR ONLINE DETECTION OF ORGANIC MOLECULAR IMPURITIES IN SEMICONDUCTOR GRADE CHEMICALS MASKELL, MICHAEL P §102§112Other Non-Final OA Pending Jun 27, 2024
18436198 SYSTEM FOR COLLECTING LIQUID SAMPLES FROM A DISTANCE HYUN, PAUL SANG HWA 1796 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Feb 08, 2024
18480880 AUTOSAMPLER SYSTEM WITH MULTI-LUMEN PROBE NGUYEN, HENRY H 1758 §102§103 Non-Final OA Pending Oct 04, 2023
18205131 AUTOMATED INLINE NANOPARTICLE STANDARD MATERIAL ADDITION GASSEN, CHRISTOPHER J 2881 §103 Non-Final OA 17d overdue Pending Jun 02, 2023
17973947 AUTOMATED SYSTEM FOR REMOTE CHEMICAL SAMPLE COLLECTION WITH SAFE ISOLATION OF SAMPLE VESSEL THOMPSON, CURTIS A 1798 §103 Non-Final OA 9d Pending Oct 26, 2022

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