Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
1 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
G13 Innovation In Production Ltd. currently has 1 pending office action in the Chemistry & Materials technology area. This matter is being reviewed by a single distinct examiner in a single distinct art unit. The company's active prosecution is confined to this instance. This indicates a very narrow or highly specialized current focus within the chemistry and materials sector.
Gerard T Higgins is the busiest examiner for the portfolio, holding the 1 pending office action. With only a single pending action total, this examiner is the sole point of contact for the company's current active cases. This concentration in a single art unit means that the company's current legal efforts are focused on the standards of a single specialized division. Practitioners should focus on the specific examination style of Gerard T Higgins, as this individual manages the 1 pending office action.
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 |
|---|---|
| Double-patenting + other | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| HIGGINS, GERARD T | 1 | 63.3% | +39.4% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19403893 | THERMAL PAPER, AND METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR FORMING THE SAME | HIGGINS, GERARD T | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1785 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19403893 | THERMAL PAPER, AND METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR FORMING THE SAME | HIGGINS, GERARD T | 1785 | §102§103DP | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Nov 30, 2025 |
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Start Free TrialG13 Innovation In Production Ltd. has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Gerard T Higgins has the most, with 1 of G13 Innovation In Production Ltd.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Chemistry & Materials (USPTO Tech Center 1700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
