Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 10 patents granted in the last 365 days
Elite Material Co. Ltd. currently manages a patent portfolio within the Chemistry & Materials technology area. There are 2 pending office actions under review for the company. These matters are assigned to 2 distinct examiners, indicating that each examiner is handling a single active case. The prosecution activity is distributed across 2 distinct art units, which suggests that the company's material science innovations are being evaluated by different specialized groups.
ZIMMER, MARC S is identified as the busiest examiner for the portfolio, with 1 pending office action. This examiner is one of the 2 distinct examiners currently reviewing the company's 2 pending office actions. Because the cases are located in 2 distinct art units, the prosecution strategy should account for the specific procedural nuances of each unit. The current profile shows a balanced distribution of work with no single examiner holding a majority of the pending matters.
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%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ZIMMER, MARC S | 1 | 79.4% | +16.1% |
| DARLING, DEVIN MITCHELL | 1 | 61.0% | +20.9% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18661866 | RESIN COMPOSITION AND ARTICLE MANUFACTURED USING THE SAME | ZIMMER, MARC S | — |
| 18232281 | RESIN COMPOSITION AND ARTICLE MADE THEREFROM | DARLING, DEVIN MITCHELL | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1766 | 1 |
| 1764 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18661866 | RESIN COMPOSITION AND ARTICLE MANUFACTURED USING THE SAME | ZIMMER, MARC S | 1766 | §103DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 13, 2024 |
| 18232281 | RESIN COMPOSITION AND ARTICLE MADE THEREFROM | DARLING, DEVIN MITCHELL | 1764 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Aug 09, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialElite Material Co. Ltd. has 2 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 2 art units and 2 examiners.
Marc S Zimmer has the most, with 1 of Elite Material Co. Ltd.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Chemistry & Materials (USPTO Tech Center 1700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
