Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
7 pending office actions • 4 art units • 7 examiners • 0 of 7 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 8 patents granted in the last 365 days
Leadway (Hk) Limited has 7 pending office actions in Chemistry & Materials. The matters involve 7 examiners across 4 art units, so examiner ownership is fully distributed while the technical assignments show recurring art-unit groupings.
BLUMEL, BENJAMIN P is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending matter. Counsel should not expect one examiner-specific approach to cover the portfolio. A useful strategy is coordinated review of issues within each art unit, combined with individualized responses for the seven examiner assignments.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 3 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.
Every pending office action with a known statutory deadline, placed on a days-until-due axis. Dots left of Today are overdue; the further right, the more runway. Cases that share a deadline window stack vertically. 3 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.
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 | 2 (29%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 5 (71%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| BLUMEL, BENJAMIN P | 1 | 70.7% | +30.6% |
| GERIDO, DWAN A | 1 | 58.1% | +30.4% |
| WILLIAMS, JAMEL E | 1 | 88.8% | +9.4% |
| TURK, NEIL N | 1 | 51.0% | +44.2% |
| JARRETT, LORE RAMILLANO | 1 | 68.6% | +25.1% |
| BRAZIN, JACQUELINE | 1 | 65.6% | +52.7% |
| KASS, BENJAMIN JOSEPH | 1 | 31.1% | +64.4% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18036054 | DETECTION PLATE HAVING IDENTIFICATION INFORMATION AND ANALYZER FOR READING IDENTIFICATION INFORMATION AND IDENTIFICATION METHOD THEREFOR | WILLIAMS, JAMEL E | — |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 5 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18036123 | TEST DEVICE AND TEST PAPER | JARRETT, LORE RAMILLANO | 97d overdue |
| 17617284 | MICROFLUIDIC CHIP AND MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREFOR | KASS, BENJAMIN JOSEPH | 73d overdue |
| 18262469 | ANALYZER AND METHOD FOR READING DETECTION RESULT OF TEST APPARATUS | TURK, NEIL N | 10d overdue |
| 18888122 | BIOLOGICAL SAMPLE EXTRACTION BUFFER, AND APPLICATION AND METHOD THEREOF | BLUMEL, BENJAMIN P | — |
| 18693122 | QUALITY CONTROL SOLUTION AND USE THEREOF | GERIDO, DWAN A | — |
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 6 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18036123 | TEST DEVICE AND TEST PAPER | JARRETT, LORE RAMILLANO | 97d overdue |
| 17617284 | MICROFLUIDIC CHIP AND MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREFOR | KASS, BENJAMIN JOSEPH | 73d overdue |
| 18262469 | ANALYZER AND METHOD FOR READING DETECTION RESULT OF TEST APPARATUS | TURK, NEIL N | 10d overdue |
| 18888122 | BIOLOGICAL SAMPLE EXTRACTION BUFFER, AND APPLICATION AND METHOD THEREOF | BLUMEL, BENJAMIN P | — |
| 18693122 | QUALITY CONTROL SOLUTION AND USE THEREOF | GERIDO, DWAN A | — |
| 18003869 | INTERNAL FIXING DEVICE FOR APPARATUS IN TRANSPORT MODE, APPARATUS COMPRISING INTERNAL FIXING DEVICE, AND METHOD FOR REDUCING DAMAGE TO APPARATUS DURING TRANSPORT | BRAZIN, JACQUELINE | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1798 | 3 |
| 1797 | 2 |
| 1671 | 1 |
| 2855 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18888122 | BIOLOGICAL SAMPLE EXTRACTION BUFFER, AND APPLICATION AND METHOD THEREOF | BLUMEL, BENJAMIN P | 1671 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 17, 2024 |
| 18693122 | QUALITY CONTROL SOLUTION AND USE THEREOF | GERIDO, DWAN A | 1797 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 18, 2024 |
| 18036054 | DETECTION PLATE HAVING IDENTIFICATION INFORMATION AND ANALYZER FOR READING IDENTIFICATION INFORMATION AND IDENTIFICATION METHOD THEREFOR | WILLIAMS, JAMEL E | 2855 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 10, 2023 |
| 18262469 | ANALYZER AND METHOD FOR READING DETECTION RESULT OF TEST APPARATUS | TURK, NEIL N | 1798 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 10d overdue | Pending | Jul 21, 2023 |
| 18036123 | TEST DEVICE AND TEST PAPER | JARRETT, LORE RAMILLANO | 1797 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 97d overdue | Pending | May 09, 2023 |
| 18003869 | INTERNAL FIXING DEVICE FOR APPARATUS IN TRANSPORT MODE, APPARATUS COMPRISING INTERNAL FIXING DEVICE, AND METHOD FOR REDUCING DAMAGE TO APPARATUS DURING TRANSPORT | BRAZIN, JACQUELINE | 1798 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 29, 2022 |
| 17617284 | MICROFLUIDIC CHIP AND MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREFOR | KASS, BENJAMIN JOSEPH | 1798 | §102§103§112 | Final Rejection | 73d overdue | Pending | Dec 07, 2021 |
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Start Free TrialLeadway (Hk) Limited has 7 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 4 art units and 7 examiners.
Benjamin P Blumel has the most, with 1 of Leadway (Hk) Limited's pending office actions.
Mostly Chemistry & Materials (USPTO Tech Center 1700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
