Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Fluidsolids AG has 2 pending office actions within the Chemistry & Materials technology area. These matters are handled by 2 distinct examiners and 2 distinct art units, indicating that the company's current prosecution is split between different technical specialties. The use of 2 distinct art units suggests that the underlying materials science or chemical processes are being evaluated under different examination criteria. This structure requires the company to navigate the specific requirements of two different art units simultaneously, even though the overall volume of active prosecution remains low.
COHEN, STEFANIE J is the busiest examiner for the portfolio, with 1 pending office action currently assigned. Since there are only 2 pending office actions in total, the workload is divided equally among the 2 distinct examiners. This lack of concentration means that no single examiner dominates the company's patent strategy. Practitioners should prepare for distinct procedural styles, as each of the 2 distinct examiners will apply their own interpretation of the Chemistry & Materials standards to the pending applications.
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 | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| COHEN, STEFANIE J | 1 | 75.5% | +2.5% |
| SMITH, CHAIM A | 1 | 39.0% | +50.9% |
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 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18566655 | Container for the preparation of a liquid foodstuff | SMITH, CHAIM A | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1732 | 1 |
| 1791 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18574733 | Recyclable material | COHEN, STEFANIE J | 1732 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 27, 2023 |
| 18566655 | Container for the preparation of a liquid foodstuff | SMITH, CHAIM A | 1791 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Dec 04, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialFluidsolids AG has 2 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 2 art units and 2 examiners.
Stefanie J Cohen has the most, with 1 of Fluidsolids AG's pending office actions.
Mostly Chemistry & Materials (USPTO Tech Center 1700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
