Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
1 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
La Sanfermese S P A maintains a focused patent portfolio with 1 pending office action in the Chemistry & Materials technology area. This activity is concentrated within 1 distinct art unit and assigned to 1 distinct examiner. The narrow scope of current prosecution suggests a highly specific technical focus for the company's recent filings. By operating within a single art unit, the company can concentrate its legal resources on the specific examination standards of that unit.
STEVEN N LEFF serves as the busiest examiner for the portfolio, managing the 1 pending office action currently on record. Because only 1 examiner is involved in the 1 pending matter, the prosecution strategy remains centralized. This allows for a direct interaction with the examiner responsible for the company's current intellectual property interests in this technology sector. Practitioners can focus their efforts on addressing the specific technical concerns of STEVEN N LEFF without needing to coordinate across multiple examiner perspectives.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| LEFF, STEVEN N | 1 | 41.4% | +8.4% |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1792 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18840081 | A PROCESS FOR THE PRODUCTION OF A SOYBEAN FLOUR HAVING A HIGH SOLUBILITY | LEFF, STEVEN N | 1792 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Aug 21, 2024 |
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Start Free TrialLa Sanfermese S P A has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Steven N Leff has the most, with 1 of La Sanfermese S P A's pending office actions.
Mostly Chemistry & Materials (USPTO Tech Center 1700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
