Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
1 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Mayur Ostwal has 1 pending office action in the Chemistry & Materials technology area. This prosecution is assigned to 1 distinct examiner, JOYNER, KEVIN, and is situated within 1 distinct art unit. The busiest examiner, JOYNER, KEVIN, is currently managing 1 busiest examiner pending action. The data shows a highly centralized prosecution for Mayur Ostwal, with the total of 1 pending office action being handled by a single examiner.
In the Chemistry & Materials field, this indicates a specific technical focus for the company's current patent application. The involvement of only 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit means that the prosecution process is streamlined and focused on a single point of contact. Practitioners should note that the outcome of the pending matter is entirely dependent on the review of JOYNER, KEVIN, as there are no other examiners or art units currently active in the portfolio. This centralized structure can simplify the management of the patent application but limits the ability to leverage different examiner viewpoints within the same technology area.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| JOYNER, KEVIN | 1 | 68.3% | +23.6% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18701137 | 3D PRINTED THIN FILM COMPOSITE MEMBRANES | JOYNER, KEVIN | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1799 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18701137 | 3D PRINTED THIN FILM COMPOSITE MEMBRANES | JOYNER, KEVIN | 1799 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Apr 12, 2024 |
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Start Free TrialMayur Ostwal has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Kevin Joyner has the most, with 1 of Mayur Ostwal's pending office actions.
Mostly Chemistry & Materials (USPTO Tech Center 1700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
