Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
4 pending office actions • 2 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 4 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Grirem Hi-Tech Co. Ltd. has 4 pending office actions in Chemistry & Materials. The matters involve 3 distinct examiners across 2 distinct art units, showing some concentration in the examination groups and limited repetition among examiners.
BARZACH, JEFFREY EUGENE is the busiest examiner, with 2 pending matters. That repeated assignment offers an opportunity to monitor examiner-specific treatment, while the other applications require separate response planning.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 1 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.
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) | 4 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| BARZACH, JEFFREY EUGENE | 2 | 56.9% | +39.2% |
| BAND, MICHAEL A | 1 | 45.1% | +55.7% |
| LACLAIR, LOGAN EDWARD | 1 | 77.7% | +23.2% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 4 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18027044 | CERIUM-ZIRCONIUM-BASED COMPOSITE OXIDE HAVING GRADIENT ELEMENT DISTRIBUTION AND PREPARATION METHOD THEREFOR | LACLAIR, LOGAN EDWARD | 134d overdue |
| 19057066 | CO-SPUTTERING RARE EARTH ROTATING TARGET MATERIAL, AND PREPARATION METHOD, AND APPLICATION METHOD THEREFOR | BAND, MICHAEL A | — |
| 18624935 | ORGANIC SLURRY WITH GRADIENT VOLATILIZATION RATE AND PREPARATION METHOD | BARZACH, JEFFREY EUGENE | — |
| 18621650 | ORGANIC SLURRY FOR NEODYMIUM IRON BORON SCREEN PRINTING AND PREPARATION METHOD | BARZACH, JEFFREY EUGENE | — |
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 4 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18027044 | CERIUM-ZIRCONIUM-BASED COMPOSITE OXIDE HAVING GRADIENT ELEMENT DISTRIBUTION AND PREPARATION METHOD THEREFOR | LACLAIR, LOGAN EDWARD | 134d overdue |
| 19057066 | CO-SPUTTERING RARE EARTH ROTATING TARGET MATERIAL, AND PREPARATION METHOD, AND APPLICATION METHOD THEREFOR | BAND, MICHAEL A | — |
| 18624935 | ORGANIC SLURRY WITH GRADIENT VOLATILIZATION RATE AND PREPARATION METHOD | BARZACH, JEFFREY EUGENE | — |
| 18621650 | ORGANIC SLURRY FOR NEODYMIUM IRON BORON SCREEN PRINTING AND PREPARATION METHOD | BARZACH, JEFFREY EUGENE | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1794 | 1 |
| 1736 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19057066 | CO-SPUTTERING RARE EARTH ROTATING TARGET MATERIAL, AND PREPARATION METHOD, AND APPLICATION METHOD THEREFOR | BAND, MICHAEL A | 1794 | §102§103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Feb 19, 2025 |
| 18624935 | ORGANIC SLURRY WITH GRADIENT VOLATILIZATION RATE AND PREPARATION METHOD | BARZACH, JEFFREY EUGENE | — | §102§103§112Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 02, 2024 |
| 18621650 | ORGANIC SLURRY FOR NEODYMIUM IRON BORON SCREEN PRINTING AND PREPARATION METHOD | BARZACH, JEFFREY EUGENE | — | §102§103§112Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 29, 2024 |
| 18027044 | CERIUM-ZIRCONIUM-BASED COMPOSITE OXIDE HAVING GRADIENT ELEMENT DISTRIBUTION AND PREPARATION METHOD THEREFOR | LACLAIR, LOGAN EDWARD | 1736 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | 134d overdue | Pending | Mar 17, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialGrirem Hi-Tech Co. Ltd. has 4 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 2 art units and 3 examiners.
Jeffrey Eugene Barzach has the most, with 2 of Grirem Hi-Tech Co. Ltd.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Chemistry & Materials (USPTO Tech Center 1700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
