Technology areas: Chemistry & Materials • Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
3 pending office actions • 3 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 3 patents granted in the last 365 days
Lpe S P A has 3 pending office actions in Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems. The matters involve 3 examiners and 3 art units, showing that the active workload is distributed across distinct prosecution channels.
TIGHE, BRENDAN P is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending matter. No examiner carries a larger visible share of the listed workload, so response planning should be organized by matter and art-unit position.
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 (67%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (33%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| MATTHEWS, TERRELL HOWARD | 1 | 84.1% | +11.2% |
| TIGHE, BRENDAN P | 1 | 76.2% | +19.4% |
| SONG, MATTHEW J | 1 | 60.4% | +13.9% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18954085 | MULTI-CHAMBER ASSEMBLY FOR HANDLING REMOVABLE EPITAXIAL REACTION UNITS | MATTHEWS, TERRELL HOWARD | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18768750 | PROCESS FOR GROWING ACTIVE LAYERS IN SEQUENCE | SONG, MATTHEW J | — |
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 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18954085 | MULTI-CHAMBER ASSEMBLY FOR HANDLING REMOVABLE EPITAXIAL REACTION UNITS | MATTHEWS, TERRELL HOWARD | — |
| 18954046 | AUTOMATION SYSTEM FOR A REMOVABLE REACTION UNIT OF AN EPITAXIAL REACTOR | TIGHE, BRENDAN P | — |
| 18768750 | PROCESS FOR GROWING ACTIVE LAYERS IN SEQUENCE | SONG, MATTHEW J | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3653 | 1 |
| 3652 | 1 |
| 1714 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18954085 | MULTI-CHAMBER ASSEMBLY FOR HANDLING REMOVABLE EPITAXIAL REACTION UNITS | MATTHEWS, TERRELL HOWARD | 3653 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 20, 2024 |
| 18954046 | AUTOMATION SYSTEM FOR A REMOVABLE REACTION UNIT OF AN EPITAXIAL REACTOR | TIGHE, BRENDAN P | 3652 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 20, 2024 |
| 18768750 | PROCESS FOR GROWING ACTIVE LAYERS IN SEQUENCE | SONG, MATTHEW J | 1714 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 10, 2024 |
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Start Free TrialLpe S P A has 3 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 3 art units and 3 examiners.
Terrell Howard Matthews has the most, with 1 of Lpe S P A's pending office actions.
Mostly Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems (USPTO Tech Center 3600), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
