Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
1 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
M Chemical Company Inc. has 1 pending office action in Chemistry & Materials. The matter involves 1 examiner and 1 art unit. JONES, CHRISTOPHER P is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending matter. The profile shows a concentrated examination assignment.
Counsel should direct analysis to the examiner’s treatment of the claimed chemical composition, material, or process and to the precise distinctions available over the cited art. Definitions of ingredients, relationships, processing conditions, and resulting properties should be supported by the written description. No parallel examiner or art-unit track is listed, so prosecution planning can remain focused on this record. Any amendment or interview should be selected for its effect on the disputed claim limitations.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| JONES, CHRISTOPHER P | 1 | 76.1% | +24.8% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18773713 | ADSORBENT AND PROCESS FOR METHANOL AND OXYGENATES SEPARATION | JONES, CHRISTOPHER P | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18773713 | ADSORBENT AND PROCESS FOR METHANOL AND OXYGENATES SEPARATION | JONES, CHRISTOPHER P | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1776 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18773713 | ADSORBENT AND PROCESS FOR METHANOL AND OXYGENATES SEPARATION | JONES, CHRISTOPHER P | 1776 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jul 16, 2024 |
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Start Free TrialM Chemical Company Inc. has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Christopher P Jones has the most, with 1 of M Chemical Company Inc.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Chemistry & Materials (USPTO Tech Center 1700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
