Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
1 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
General Electric currently has 1 pending office action in the Chemistry & Materials technology area. This matter is assigned to 1 distinct examiner and art unit. Jennifer A. Steele is the busiest examiner, responsible for the pending office action.
The company's prosecution is currently focused on the 1 pending office action within a single art unit. This concentration suggests that the company's immediate patent outcomes in the chemistry sector are dependent on the specific examination conducted by Jennifer A. Steele.
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 |
|---|---|
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| STEELE, JENNIFER A | 1 | 48.7% | +33.5% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17601270 | A METHOD OF FABRICATING A CMC PART | STEELE, JENNIFER A | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17601270 | A METHOD OF FABRICATING A CMC PART | STEELE, JENNIFER A | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1789 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17601270 | A METHOD OF FABRICATING A CMC PART | STEELE, JENNIFER A | 1789 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 04, 2021 |
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Start Free TrialGeneral Electric has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Jennifer A Steele has the most, with 1 of General Electric's pending office actions.
Mostly Chemistry & Materials (USPTO Tech Center 1700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
