Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
1 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Icl Catodos Ltda is currently managing 1 pending office action within the Chemistry & Materials technology area. The prosecution of this portfolio is concentrated, featuring 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit. This narrow focus suggests that the company's current legal efforts are directed toward a specific patent objective within its technical field.
The busiest examiner for the company is SYLVESTER, KEVIN, who is assigned 1 busiest examiner pending action. This figure matches the total 1 pending office action for the company. Because the company is only interacting with 1 distinct art unit, the prosecution process is highly specialized. Practitioners should note that the company's current outcomes in Chemistry & Materials are entirely dependent on the specific review and interpretations of Kevin Sylvester.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| SYLVESTER, KEVIN | 1 | 47.5% | +27.4% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18323742 | EDGE COVERING WITH ANTI-SLIP SYSTEM | SYLVESTER, KEVIN | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1794 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18323742 | EDGE COVERING WITH ANTI-SLIP SYSTEM | SYLVESTER, KEVIN | 1794 | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 25, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialIcl Catodos Ltda has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Kevin Sylvester has the most, with 1 of Icl Catodos Ltda's pending office actions.
Mostly Chemistry & Materials (USPTO Tech Center 1700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
