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
Inno-It Co. Ltd. currently manages a focused patent portfolio within the Chemistry & Materials technology area. The presence of 1 pending office action suggests a highly concentrated prosecution phase. This single active matter indicates that the company is likely prioritizing a specific chemical innovation or maintaining a lean domestic filing strategy at this stage.
The prosecution is handled by 1 distinct examiner across 1 distinct art unit. This total alignment between the examiner count and the art unit count reflects a lack of technical fragmentation in the current workload. For practitioners, this means that the entirety of the company's immediate patent outcomes depends on a single relationship within the USPTO. The use of 1 distinct art unit suggests the filing is highly specialized within the chemistry sector.
EFTA, ALEX B is identified as the busiest examiner for this portfolio, currently overseeing 1 busiest examiner pending action. Because this examiner is responsible for the only pending action, their specific examination style and prior rulings will dictate the immediate trajectory of the company's intellectual property. The concentration of 1 busiest examiner pending action under a single individual simplifies the monitoring process but increases the impact of that examiner's specific tendencies.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| EFTA, ALEX B | 1 | 59.9% | +25.3% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17424918 | Gel Aerosol-Forming Substrate Cartridge that Can be inserted into Electrically Heated Smoking Article, Electrically Heated Smoking Article Including the Same, and Aerosol Generating Device and System Therefor | EFTA, ALEX B | 22d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1745 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17424918 | Gel Aerosol-Forming Substrate Cartridge that Can be inserted into Electrically Heated Smoking Article, Electrically Heated Smoking Article Including the Same, and Aerosol Generating Device and System Therefor | EFTA, ALEX B | 1745 | §112 | Final Rejection | 22d | Pending | Jul 22, 2021 |
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Start Free TrialInno-It Co. Ltd. has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Alex B Efta has the most, with 1 of Inno-It Co. Ltd.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Chemistry & Materials (USPTO Tech Center 1700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
