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
Micro Products Company has a very focused presence in the Chemistry & Materials technology area. The company currently has 1 pending office action, which is being reviewed by 1 distinct examiner. This single action represents the entirety of the company's active prosecution docket as shown in the data.
The prosecution is limited to 1 distinct art unit. This suggests that the company's current patenting efforts are concentrated on a specific technical innovation within the broader field of chemistry and materials. Practitioners only need to monitor the developments within this one art unit for this portfolio.
STONER, KILEY SHAWN is the busiest examiner for the company, with 1 pending office action. Since there is only 1 pending office action in total, STONER, KILEY SHAWN is the sole examiner responsible for the company's current active cases. The outcome of this single office action will determine the immediate success of the company's patent strategy in this 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 |
|---|---|
| Double-patenting + other | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| STONER, KILEY SHAWN | 1 | 80.8% | +15.4% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19457533 | Material Positioner for Welding Apparatus and Method | STONER, KILEY SHAWN | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19457533 | Material Positioner for Welding Apparatus and Method | STONER, KILEY SHAWN | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1735 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19457533 | Material Positioner for Welding Apparatus and Method | STONER, KILEY SHAWN | 1735 | §102§103§112DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 23, 2026 |
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Start Free TrialMicro Products Company has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Kiley Shawn Stoner has the most, with 1 of Micro Products Company's pending office actions.
Mostly Chemistry & Materials (USPTO Tech Center 1700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
