Technology areas: Chemistry & Materials • Communications
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Face International Corporation has 2 pending office actions in the Chemistry & Materials technology area. These actions are handled by 2 distinct examiners and are located within 2 distinct art units, indicating that the company's current patent interests are split across different technical specialties. The lack of overlap between examiners and art units means that each application must be prosecuted as an independent effort without the benefit of examiner-specific precedents from other active cases.
The busiest examiner for the portfolio is AHMED, SHEEBA, who is responsible for 1 pending office action. With only 2 pending office actions in total, the workload is evenly divided among the 2 distinct examiners. This distribution across 2 art units suggests that the materials or chemical processes being patented are distinct enough to require different technical expertise during the examination process. Success in one art unit may not correlate with success in the other due to this administrative separation.
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 |
|---|---|
| §101 + other | 2 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| AHMED, SHEEBA | 1 | 80.6% | +14.5% |
| HSIEH, PING Y | 1 | 79.1% | +15.5% |
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 # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19005920 | IMAGE CAPTURING SYSTEM WITH WAVELENGTH-SELECTIVE ENERGY SCATTERING LAYER | AHMED, SHEEBA | — |
| 18815623 | SECURITY AND TRACKING SYSTEMS INCLUDING ENERGY HARVESTING COMPONENTS FOR PROVIDING AUTONOMOUS ELECTRICAL POWER | HSIEH, PING Y | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19005920 | IMAGE CAPTURING SYSTEM WITH WAVELENGTH-SELECTIVE ENERGY SCATTERING LAYER | AHMED, SHEEBA | — |
| 18815623 | SECURITY AND TRACKING SYSTEMS INCLUDING ENERGY HARVESTING COMPONENTS FOR PROVIDING AUTONOMOUS ELECTRICAL POWER | HSIEH, PING Y | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1787 | 1 |
| 2664 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19005920 | IMAGE CAPTURING SYSTEM WITH WAVELENGTH-SELECTIVE ENERGY SCATTERING LAYER | AHMED, SHEEBA | 1787 | §101DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 30, 2024 |
| 18815623 | SECURITY AND TRACKING SYSTEMS INCLUDING ENERGY HARVESTING COMPONENTS FOR PROVIDING AUTONOMOUS ELECTRICAL POWER | HSIEH, PING Y | 2664 | §101DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 26, 2024 |
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Start Free TrialFace International Corporation has 2 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 2 art units and 2 examiners.
Sheeba Ahmed has the most, with 1 of Face International Corporation's pending office actions.
Mostly Chemistry & Materials (USPTO Tech Center 1700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
