Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
1 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Mec Company Ltd. has 1 pending office action in the Chemistry & Materials technology area. This single active matter is assigned to 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit. The current prosecution activity is highly centralized within the patent office, allowing the company to focus its resources on a single point of contact for its pending Chemistry & Materials innovations.
The busiest examiner for this portfolio is DELCOTTO, GREGORY R, who is responsible for 1 pending office action. Because there is only 1 pending action in total, this examiner handles the company's entire current pending workload. The company's immediate prosecution success depends on the interactions with this specific individual, as there are no other pending matters to provide a baseline for comparison.
The use of 1 distinct art unit suggests a specific technical focus for the company's current filing. With 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit, the prosecution process is highly streamlined. Practitioners can focus their efforts on the specific guidelines and historical trends of this single art unit to optimize their approach for the 1 pending office action currently in this examiner's queue.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| DELCOTTO, GREGORY R | 1 | 54.1% | +75.7% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18845651 | CLEANING AGENT, CLEANING METHOD AND SUPPLEMENTARY LIQUID | DELCOTTO, GREGORY R | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1761 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18845651 | CLEANING AGENT, CLEANING METHOD AND SUPPLEMENTARY LIQUID | DELCOTTO, GREGORY R | 1761 | §103Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 10, 2024 |
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Start Free TrialMec Company Ltd. has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Gregory R Delcotto has the most, with 1 of Mec Company Ltd.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Chemistry & Materials (USPTO Tech Center 1700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
