Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
1 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Lncus GmbH is a company patent portfolio within the Chemistry & Materials technology area. There is 1 pending office action currently. This 1 pending office action is assigned to 1 distinct examiner. The prosecution activity is located within 1 distinct art unit.
The busiest examiner is MCGUTHRY BANKS, TIMA MICHELE. This examiner is responsible for 1 busiest examiner pending office action. Because there is 1 pending office action and 1 distinct examiner, MCGUTHRY BANKS, TIMA MICHELE handles the current workload. This examiner is the only individual from the USPTO listed in the current data.
Practitioners should note that the prosecution strategy depends on the 1 distinct examiner and the 1 distinct art unit. There are no other distinct examiners in this portfolio to provide a comparison of allowance rates. The 1 distinct art unit defines the technical standards for the 1 pending office action in the Chemistry & Materials field. The singular focus on MCGUTHRY BANKS, TIMA MICHELE means all current feedback originates from one source.
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 | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| MCGUTHRY BANKS, TIMA MICHELE | 1 | 81.6% | +2.8% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18129980 | METHOD FOR ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING OF AT LEAST ONE METALLIC AND/OR CERAMIC COMPONENT, AND MATERIAL COMPOSITION THEREFOR | MCGUTHRY BANKS, TIMA MICHELE | 77d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1733 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18129980 | METHOD FOR ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING OF AT LEAST ONE METALLIC AND/OR CERAMIC COMPONENT, AND MATERIAL COMPOSITION THEREFOR | MCGUTHRY BANKS, TIMA MICHELE | 1733 | §103 | Final Rejection | 77d overdue | Pending | Apr 03, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialLncus GmbH has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Tima Michele Mcguthry Banks has the most, with 1 of Lncus GmbH's pending office actions.
Mostly Chemistry & Materials (USPTO Tech Center 1700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.