Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
5 pending office actions • 4 art units • 5 examiners • 0 of 5 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 2 patents granted in the last 365 days
L&F Co. Ltd. is managing 5 pending office actions in the Chemistry & Materials technology area. These actions are distributed among 5 distinct examiners, ensuring that no single examiner is handling more than one of the company's active cases. This one-to-one ratio between actions and examiners provides a broad range of perspectives across the pending portfolio, which can help mitigate the impact of any single examiner's strictness. For the practitioner, this ensures that the company's success is not tied to the decision-making of a single individual.
The workload is spread across 5 distinct art units. CARLSON, KOURTNEY SALZMAN is the busiest examiner with 1 pending office action, representing a balanced distribution of the workload across the assigned staff and technical divisions. This structure indicates that the company's current research and development efforts are technically diverse, requiring interactions with five different specialized groups within the patent office to advance its 5 pending matters. This lack of concentration across art units suggests a broad technical scope for the company's current innovation, requiring a flexible approach to prosecution that accounts for the different standards of five separate technical divisions.
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 |
|---|---|
| §103 only | 3 (60%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (40%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| CARLSON, KOURTNEY SALZMAN | 1 | 44.8% | +40.2% |
| DUMBRIS, SETH M | 1 | 76.4% | +16.7% |
| LEE, DANIEL H. | 1 | 70.7% | +25.1% |
| RUTISER, CLAIRE A | 1 | 41.9% | +22.8% |
| GARCIA, BETHANY CLAIRE | 1 | 66.7% | +34.5% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18693601 | CATHODE ACTIVE MATERIAL FOR SECONDARY BATTERY | CARLSON, KOURTNEY SALZMAN | — |
| 18575922 | MATERIAL FOR ACTIVE MATERIAL KILN AND KILN INCLUDING SAME | DUMBRIS, SETH M | — |
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 5 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17765963 | NOVEL LITHIUM-METAL OXIDE COMPOSITE, AND LITHIUM SECONDARY BATTERY COMPRISING SAME | RUTISER, CLAIRE A | 7d |
| 18693601 | CATHODE ACTIVE MATERIAL FOR SECONDARY BATTERY | CARLSON, KOURTNEY SALZMAN | — |
| 18575922 | MATERIAL FOR ACTIVE MATERIAL KILN AND KILN INCLUDING SAME | DUMBRIS, SETH M | — |
| 18563984 | POSITIVE ELECTRODE ACTIVE MATERIAL FOR LITHIUM SECONDARY BATTERY | LEE, DANIEL H. | — |
| 17620190 | POSITIVE ELECTRODE ACTIVE MATERIAL FOR LITHIUM SECONDARY BATTERY | GARCIA, BETHANY CLAIRE | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1721 | 2 |
| 1784 | 1 |
| 1746 | 1 |
| 1751 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18693601 | CATHODE ACTIVE MATERIAL FOR SECONDARY BATTERY | CARLSON, KOURTNEY SALZMAN | 1721 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 15, 2024 |
| 18575922 | MATERIAL FOR ACTIVE MATERIAL KILN AND KILN INCLUDING SAME | DUMBRIS, SETH M | 1784 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Feb 13, 2024 |
| 18563984 | POSITIVE ELECTRODE ACTIVE MATERIAL FOR LITHIUM SECONDARY BATTERY | LEE, DANIEL H. | 1746 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 23, 2024 |
| 17765963 | NOVEL LITHIUM-METAL OXIDE COMPOSITE, AND LITHIUM SECONDARY BATTERY COMPRISING SAME | RUTISER, CLAIRE A | 1751 | §103 | Final Rejection | 7d | Pending | May 19, 2022 |
| 17620190 | POSITIVE ELECTRODE ACTIVE MATERIAL FOR LITHIUM SECONDARY BATTERY | GARCIA, BETHANY CLAIRE | 1721 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 29, 2022 |
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Start Free TrialL&F Co. Ltd. has 5 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 4 art units and 5 examiners.
Kourtney Salzman Carlson has the most, with 1 of L&F Co. Ltd.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Chemistry & Materials (USPTO Tech Center 1700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
