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
Liftrock LLC maintains 1 pending office action within the Chemistry & Materials technology area. This active matter is situated within 1 distinct art unit, reflecting a narrow technological focus for the current prosecution cycle. The portfolio involves a single distinct examiner, HOPKINS, ROBERT A, who is responsible for the pending case. This examiner is the busiest for the company, as they handle the only active matter currently recorded.
The concentration of the pending office action under a single examiner in a single art unit creates a centralized prosecution environment. For practitioners, this means that the outcome of the Chemistry & Materials portfolio currently rests on a single examiner's review. HOPKINS, ROBERT A holds the full extent of the company's active interactions with the patent office in this specific data set. There is no distribution of risk across different art units, as all metrics are limited to a single instance of the active docket.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| HOPKINS, ROBERT A | 1 | 84.5% | +7.6% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18895836 | METHODS AND APPARATI FOR QUICKSET GAS LIFT SEPARATION AND LIQUID STORAGE | HOPKINS, ROBERT A | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1776 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18895836 | METHODS AND APPARATI FOR QUICKSET GAS LIFT SEPARATION AND LIQUID STORAGE | HOPKINS, ROBERT A | 1776 | §112Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 25, 2024 |
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Start Free TrialLiftrock LLC has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Robert A Hopkins has the most, with 1 of Liftrock LLC's pending office actions.
Mostly Chemistry & Materials (USPTO Tech Center 1700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
