Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
1 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Memsstar Limited has 1 pending office action in the Chemistry & Materials technology area. This action is assigned to DUCLAIR, STEPHANIE P., who is the busiest examiner with 1 pending matter. The current prosecution is limited to 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit. This indicates that the company's active workload is focused on a single technical matter within the Chemistry & Materials sector.
Because there is only 1 pending office action, the company's immediate results depend entirely on this single application. DUCLAIR, STEPHANIE P. is the sole distinct examiner for the portfolio, and the work is confined to 1 distinct art unit. This concentration suggests a specialized technical scope for the 1 pending office action. The prosecution strategy is centralized, as DUCLAIR, STEPHANIE P. oversees the only active matter for Memsstar Limited. Practitioners should focus on the specific requirements of that 1 distinct art unit when addressing the 1 pending office action.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| DUCLAIR, STEPHANIE P. | 1 | 72.3% | +19.6% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18562321 | METHOD OF MANUFACTURING A MICROSTRUCTURE | DUCLAIR, STEPHANIE P. | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1713 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18562321 | METHOD OF MANUFACTURING A MICROSTRUCTURE | DUCLAIR, STEPHANIE P. | 1713 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 19, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialMemsstar Limited has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Stephanie P. Duclair has the most, with 1 of Memsstar Limited's pending office actions.
Mostly Chemistry & Materials (USPTO Tech Center 1700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
