Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
1 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Liquiglide Inc. manages 1 pending office action within the Chemistry & Materials technology area. This single action is assigned to 1 distinct examiner, BUTCHER, ROBERT T, who is the busiest examiner for the portfolio. The prosecution is restricted to 1 distinct art unit, reflecting a concentrated technical scope for the company's current applications. This centralization allows the company to focus its legal resources on a single technical division. The 1 pending office action represents the entirety of the company's active examination pipeline.
Because there is only 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit involved, the prosecution path is singular and direct. BUTCHER, ROBERT T handles the 1 busiest examiner pending case, allowing the company to engage directly with one examiner to advance its intellectual property goals. This streamlined structure simplifies the management of the 1 pending office action and ensures a focused response to the examiner's requirements. Practitioners can leverage the consistency of working with 1 distinct examiner to advance the 1 busiest examiner pending matter. The 1 distinct art unit assignment ensures a stable technical framework for the prosecution.
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 |
|---|---|
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| BUTCHER, ROBERT T | 1 | 71.3% | +16.7% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18378806 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR CREATING DURABLE LUBRICIOUS SURFACES VIA INTERFACIAL MODIFICATION | BUTCHER, ROBERT T | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18378806 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR CREATING DURABLE LUBRICIOUS SURFACES VIA INTERFACIAL MODIFICATION | BUTCHER, ROBERT T | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1764 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18378806 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR CREATING DURABLE LUBRICIOUS SURFACES VIA INTERFACIAL MODIFICATION | BUTCHER, ROBERT T | 1764 | §102§103Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 11, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialLiquiglide Inc. has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Robert T Butcher has the most, with 1 of Liquiglide Inc.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Chemistry & Materials (USPTO Tech Center 1700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
