Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
2 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Inheriting Earth Limited holds a company patent portfolio focused on the Chemistry & Materials technology area. There are currently 2 pending office actions associated with this portfolio. Notably, both of these actions are assigned to 1 distinct examiner working within 1 distinct art unit. This arrangement signifies a high degree of centralization in the company's current patent prosecution.
The busiest examiner for this portfolio is NORRIS, CLAIRE A. This examiner is responsible for 2 pending office actions. Since the total count of pending actions is 2, NORRIS, CLAIRE A manages the entirety of the active workload for Inheriting Earth Limited. This examiner is the sole point of contact for the company's current matters at the patent office.
The use of 1 distinct art unit for all 2 pending actions indicates that the underlying technology is classified within a single specialized group. For practitioners, this means that prosecution strategies can be tailored to the specific tendencies of NORRIS, CLAIRE A and the standards of that single art unit. The concentration of 2 actions under 1 examiner provides an opportunity for consistent communication across the pending applications in the Chemistry & Materials sector.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 2 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 (50%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (50%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| NORRIS, CLAIRE A | 2 | 66.0% | +27.9% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18557976 | A PUMP-EQUIPPED SEPARATOR | NORRIS, CLAIRE A | 43d overdue |
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 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18557976 | A PUMP-EQUIPPED SEPARATOR | NORRIS, CLAIRE A | 43d overdue |
| 18557975 | A PUMP-EQUIPPED SEPARATOR | NORRIS, CLAIRE A | 42d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1779 | 2 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18557976 | A PUMP-EQUIPPED SEPARATOR | NORRIS, CLAIRE A | 1779 | §103§112Other | Final Rejection | 43d overdue | Pending | Oct 30, 2023 |
| 18557975 | A PUMP-EQUIPPED SEPARATOR | NORRIS, CLAIRE A | 1779 | §112 | Final Rejection | 42d overdue | Pending | Oct 30, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialInheriting Earth Limited has 2 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Claire A Norris has the most, with 2 of Inheriting Earth Limited's pending office actions.
Mostly Chemistry & Materials (USPTO Tech Center 1700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
