Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
1 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 2 patents granted in the last 365 days
Ft Holdings Inc. is managing 1 pending office action in the Chemistry & Materials technology area. This action is being reviewed by 1 distinct examiner within 1 distinct art unit, representing a very concentrated prosecution profile. The company's current interaction with the USPTO is limited to this single matter, with no other pending actions reported.
Nickolas R Harm is the busiest examiner for the company, currently responsible for the 1 pending office action. This single filing constitutes the entirety of the company's current pending prosecution, making him the sole official involved in the process. The focus is entirely on this 1 distinct examiner and the specific requirements of the 1 distinct art unit.
Practitioners can focus their efforts on the individual examination style of Nickolas R Harm. Because there is only 1 total action, there is no need to coordinate arguments across different applications or examiners. This 1 to 1 ratio of actions to examiners allows for a direct and streamlined approach to resolving the company's current 1 pending office action in the Chemistry & Materials area.
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 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| HARM, NICKOLAS R | 1 | 79.5% | +5.8% |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1745 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18992039 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR WRAPPING ROLLED MATERIAL ON CYLINDRICAL OBJECTS | HARM, NICKOLAS R | 1745 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 07, 2025 |
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Start Free TrialFt Holdings Inc. has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Nickolas R Harm has the most, with 1 of Ft Holdings Inc.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Chemistry & Materials (USPTO Tech Center 1700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
