Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
1 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Home Tech Innovation Inc. is managing 1 pending office action within the Chemistry & Materials technology area. The busiest examiner for this portfolio is BECKER, DREW E, who is responsible for 1 pending office action. The data shows 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit, indicating that the current prosecution activity is limited to a single examiner's oversight.
This administrative structure indicates that the pending matter is being handled through a very specific and limited channel. Because there is only 1 distinct examiner involved, the applicant can concentrate their strategy on a single individual's interpretation of the technology area. The presence of 1 distinct art unit further suggests a narrow administrative scope for the current portfolio.
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 |
|---|---|
| §112 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| BECKER, DREW E | 1 | 49.0% | +0.2% |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1792 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18075945 | FLUID-BASED DEVICES FOR STORING AND PREPARING FOOD AND METHODS OF USING THE SAME | BECKER, DREW E | 1792 | §112 | Non-Final OA | 29d | Pending | Dec 06, 2022 |
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Start Free TrialHome Tech Innovation Inc. has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Drew E Becker has the most, with 1 of Home Tech Innovation Inc.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Chemistry & Materials (USPTO Tech Center 1700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.