Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
1 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Everever currently has 1 pending office action in the Chemistry & Materials technology area. This matter is being handled by a distinct examiner, which allows for a very focused prosecution approach. The activity is located within 1 distinct art unit, indicating that the company's current patent efforts are concentrated in a specific chemical or material science field.
CRISTI J TATE-SIMS is the busiest examiner for this company, as she is assigned the pending office action. Because there is only a single distinct examiner involved, the applicant can focus entirely on the specific examination style of TATE-SIMS. The presence of the pending office action within the art unit suggests a targeted intellectual property strategy. Practitioners can leverage the data from the art unit to better understand the likely hurdles for this pending matter. This streamlined profile reduces the administrative burden of managing chemistry-related filings and allows for more precise resource allocation.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| TATE-SIMS, CRISTI J | 1 | 83.7% | +14.6% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18876980 | FRONT FACADE STRUCTURE FOR A FRONT DOOR OF A DISHWASHER | TATE-SIMS, CRISTI J | — |
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 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18876980 | FRONT FACADE STRUCTURE FOR A FRONT DOOR OF A DISHWASHER | TATE-SIMS, CRISTI J | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1711 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18876980 | FRONT FACADE STRUCTURE FOR A FRONT DOOR OF A DISHWASHER | TATE-SIMS, CRISTI J | 1711 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 19, 2024 |
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Start Free TrialEverever has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Cristi J Tate-Sims has the most, with 1 of Everever's pending office actions.
Mostly Chemistry & Materials (USPTO Tech Center 1700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
