Technology areas: Chemistry & Materials • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
6 pending office actions • 4 art units • 6 examiners • 0 of 6 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 2 patents granted in the last 365 days
Maxterial Inc. has 6 pending office actions in Chemistry & Materials. The matters involve 6 distinct examiners and 4 distinct art units. Examiner assignments are fully dispersed, while several matters are handled within recurring art-unit assignments. Counsel should combine centralized portfolio tracking with art-unit-specific analysis of claim scope and prior-art issues.
ARUNDALE, ROBERT K is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending matter. No examiner has a concentrated share of the workload. A common technical framework may support consistency, but each response should address the individual examiner record.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 2 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 (17%) |
| §102 only | 1 (17%) |
| Double-patenting only | 1 (17%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 3 (50%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| YE, XINWEN | 1 | 43.1% | +44.3% |
| ARUNDALE, ROBERT K | 1 | 75.6% | +23.6% |
| HORGER, KIM S. | 1 | 70.4% | +20.6% |
| LU, HAOTIAN | 1 | 61.8% | +35.3% |
| SYLVESTER, KEVIN | 1 | 47.5% | +27.4% |
| WANG, XIAOBEI | 1 | 65.3% | +48.2% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18971300 | ARTICLES INCLUDING SURFACE COATINGS AND METHODS TO PRODUCE THEM | HORGER, KIM S. | 36d overdue |
| 18542663 | ARTICLES INCLUDING SURFACE COATINGS ON EXTERNAL SURFACES, INTERNAL SURFACES OR BOTH | LU, HAOTIAN | — |
| 18542660 | PROCESSES FOR PRODUCING COATED SURFACES, COATINGS AND ARTICLES USING THEM | SYLVESTER, KEVIN | — |
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 6 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17844406 | ROTATIONAL DEVICES INCLUDING COATED SURFACES | WANG, XIAOBEI | 59d overdue |
| 18971300 | ARTICLES INCLUDING SURFACE COATINGS AND METHODS TO PRODUCE THEM | HORGER, KIM S. | 36d overdue |
| 19236790 | MOLDS AND DIES INCLUDING SURFACE COATINGS | YE, XINWEN | — |
| 19236793 | VALVES INCLUDING SURFACE COATINGS | ARUNDALE, ROBERT K | — |
| 18542663 | ARTICLES INCLUDING SURFACE COATINGS ON EXTERNAL SURFACES, INTERNAL SURFACES OR BOTH | LU, HAOTIAN | — |
| 18542660 | PROCESSES FOR PRODUCING COATED SURFACES, COATINGS AND ARTICLES USING THEM | SYLVESTER, KEVIN | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3753 | 2 |
| 1784 | 2 |
| 1754 | 1 |
| 1794 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19236790 | MOLDS AND DIES INCLUDING SURFACE COATINGS | YE, XINWEN | 1754 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 12, 2025 |
| 19236793 | VALVES INCLUDING SURFACE COATINGS | ARUNDALE, ROBERT K | 3753 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 12, 2025 |
| 18971300 | ARTICLES INCLUDING SURFACE COATINGS AND METHODS TO PRODUCE THEM | HORGER, KIM S. | 1784 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 36d overdue | Pending | Dec 06, 2024 |
| 18542663 | ARTICLES INCLUDING SURFACE COATINGS ON EXTERNAL SURFACES, INTERNAL SURFACES OR BOTH | LU, HAOTIAN | 3753 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 16, 2023 |
| 18542660 | PROCESSES FOR PRODUCING COATED SURFACES, COATINGS AND ARTICLES USING THEM | SYLVESTER, KEVIN | 1794 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 16, 2023 |
| 17844406 | ROTATIONAL DEVICES INCLUDING COATED SURFACES | WANG, XIAOBEI | 1784 | DP | Final Rejection | 59d overdue | Pending | Jun 20, 2022 |
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Start Free TrialMaxterial Inc. has 6 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 4 art units and 6 examiners.
Xinwen Ye has the most, with 1 of Maxterial Inc.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Chemistry & Materials (USPTO Tech Center 1700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
