Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
1 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
General Co. Ltd. currently has 1 pending office action within the Chemistry & Materials technology area. This matter is assigned to SHEWAREGED, BETELHEM, who serves as the only distinct examiner involved. The case is situated within a single distinct art unit.
Because there is only 1 busiest examiner pending action, the prosecution profile is highly focused. Practitioners can concentrate resources on this specific examiner and art unit without the need for broader portfolio management strategies. This alignment simplifies the tracking of prosecution trends for the company.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| SHEWAREGED, BETELHEM | 1 | 71.6% | +9.2% |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1785 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19101191 | THERMAL-TRANSFER RECORDING MEDIUM, TRANSFERRED-MEDIUM FILM, AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING TRANSFERRED-MEDIUM FILM | SHEWAREGED, BETELHEM | 1785 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 04, 2025 |
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Start Free TrialGeneral Co. Ltd. has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Betelhem Shewareged has the most, with 1 of General Co. Ltd.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Chemistry & Materials (USPTO Tech Center 1700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
