Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
1 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Gurtler Industries Inc. has 1 pending office action in Chemistry & Materials. The matter is assigned to 1 examiner and 1 art unit. NGUYEN, BOI-LIEN THI is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending matter, placing the available examination activity in a single path.
The prosecution response should focus on the claimed chemical or material features and the examiner’s specific reading of the cited references. Counsel can strengthen the record by distinguishing composition, process, and resulting properties through disclosure-supported technical explanations. Because no additional examiner or art-unit assignment appears, there is no need to harmonize positions across matters. A targeted interview or written response can address the office action while preserving flexibility in subsequent claim development.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| NGUYEN, BOI-LIEN THI | 1 | 23.4% | +30.3% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18773797 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DISINFECTANT TEXTILES AND MAINTAINING INCREASED OXIDATION REDUCTION POTENTIAL LEVELS | NGUYEN, BOI-LIEN THI | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18773797 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DISINFECTANT TEXTILES AND MAINTAINING INCREASED OXIDATION REDUCTION POTENTIAL LEVELS | NGUYEN, BOI-LIEN THI | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1779 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18773797 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DISINFECTANT TEXTILES AND MAINTAINING INCREASED OXIDATION REDUCTION POTENTIAL LEVELS | NGUYEN, BOI-LIEN THI | 1779 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 16, 2024 |
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Start Free TrialGurtler Industries Inc. has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Boi-Lien Thi Nguyen has the most, with 1 of Gurtler Industries Inc.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Chemistry & Materials (USPTO Tech Center 1700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.