Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
1 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Hf Investment Co. Ltd. has 1 pending office action in the Chemistry & Materials technology area. This matter is handled by 1 distinct examiner and is located within a distinct art unit, reflecting a concentrated prosecution effort. This suggests the company is currently focused on a specific advancement in materials science. The concentration of the workload under this examiner means that the company's immediate patenting goals are tied to a specific technical review process.
The busiest examiner, MORALES, RICARDO D, is overseeing the pending office action. This matter constitutes the entire pending workload for the company. Consequently, the immediate results for the portfolio depend on the specific examination style of this examiner and the standards of the involved art unit. Practitioners should tailor their approach to the 1 pending office action by analyzing the examiner's requirements to ensure the company's materials-based innovations are protected.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| MORALES, RICARDO D | 1 | 81.4% | +16.9% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18644887 | ALUMINUM ALLOY DEOXIDIZER WITH CARBON COMPOUNDS | MORALES, RICARDO D | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18644887 | ALUMINUM ALLOY DEOXIDIZER WITH CARBON COMPOUNDS | MORALES, RICARDO D | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1738 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18644887 | ALUMINUM ALLOY DEOXIDIZER WITH CARBON COMPOUNDS | MORALES, RICARDO D | 1738 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 24, 2024 |
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Start Free TrialHf Investment Co. Ltd. has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Ricardo D Morales has the most, with 1 of Hf Investment Co. Ltd.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Chemistry & Materials (USPTO Tech Center 1700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
