Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
7 pending office actions • 7 art units • 7 examiners • 0 of 7 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 14 patents granted in the last 365 days
National Institute for Materials Science has 7 pending office actions in Chemistry & Materials. The matters are distributed across 7 examiners and 7 art units, so each pending matter has its own examiner and art-unit assignment.
MOORE, DEVON TYLEN is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending matter. That figure matches the assignment represented by each examiner, indicating no concentration around one examiner. Counsel should therefore organize responses by matter while monitoring the separate art-unit contexts.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 1 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 | 3 (43%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 1 (14%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 3 (43%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| MOORE, DEVON TYLEN | 1 | 48.4% | +37.2% |
| LIEB, JEANETTE M | 1 | 79.8% | +17.4% |
| DIETERLE, JENNIFER M | 1 | 65.9% | +27.6% |
| NEWTON, VALERIE N | 1 | 84.2% | +5.9% |
| CARPENTER, JOSHUA S | 1 | 51.6% | +37.2% |
| BARZACH, JEFFREY EUGENE | 1 | 56.9% | +39.2% |
| KARST, DAVID THOMAS | 1 | 64.8% | +9.7% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18698360 | LAMINATE AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING SAME | NEWTON, VALERIE N | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18686624 | COBALT-CHROMIUM ALLOY MEMBER, METHOD OF PRODUCING THE SAME, AND DEVICE USING THE SAME | CARPENTER, JOSHUA S | 17d overdue |
| 18996410 | CO2 SEPARATION SYSTEM | MOORE, DEVON TYLEN | — |
| 18834938 | ANTI-ADHESIVE MATERIAL, AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING ANTI-ADHESIVE MATERIAL | LIEB, JEANETTE M | — |
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 5 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18686624 | COBALT-CHROMIUM ALLOY MEMBER, METHOD OF PRODUCING THE SAME, AND DEVICE USING THE SAME | CARPENTER, JOSHUA S | 17d overdue |
| 18996410 | CO2 SEPARATION SYSTEM | MOORE, DEVON TYLEN | — |
| 18834938 | ANTI-ADHESIVE MATERIAL, AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING ANTI-ADHESIVE MATERIAL | LIEB, JEANETTE M | — |
| 18834091 | CO2 ADSORBENT AND CO2 SEPARATION AND RECOVERY METHOD USING THE SAME | DIETERLE, JENNIFER M | — |
| 18577332 | ADHESIVE, WOUND DRESSING MATERIAL, ANTI-ADHESION MATERIAL, HEMOSTATIC MATERIAL, SEALANT, AND SPRAY KIT | BARZACH, JEFFREY EUGENE | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3763 | 1 |
| 1654 | 1 |
| 1776 | 1 |
| 2897 | 1 |
| 1733 | 1 |
| 1731 | 1 |
| 1767 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18996410 | CO2 SEPARATION SYSTEM | MOORE, DEVON TYLEN | 3763 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 17, 2025 |
| 18834938 | ANTI-ADHESIVE MATERIAL, AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING ANTI-ADHESIVE MATERIAL | LIEB, JEANETTE M | 1654 | §102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 31, 2024 |
| 18834091 | CO2 ADSORBENT AND CO2 SEPARATION AND RECOVERY METHOD USING THE SAME | DIETERLE, JENNIFER M | 1776 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 29, 2024 |
| 18698360 | LAMINATE AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING SAME | NEWTON, VALERIE N | 2897 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Apr 04, 2024 |
| 18686624 | COBALT-CHROMIUM ALLOY MEMBER, METHOD OF PRODUCING THE SAME, AND DEVICE USING THE SAME | CARPENTER, JOSHUA S | 1733 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 17d overdue | Pending | Feb 26, 2024 |
| 18577332 | ADHESIVE, WOUND DRESSING MATERIAL, ANTI-ADHESION MATERIAL, HEMOSTATIC MATERIAL, SEALANT, AND SPRAY KIT | BARZACH, JEFFREY EUGENE | 1731 | §103§112DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 08, 2024 |
| 18272097 | COPOLYMER, ANTIBODY-COPOLYMER CONJUGATE PREPARATION KIT, ANTIBODY-COPOLYMER CONJUGATE, METHOD FOR CONCENTRATING ANTIGEN, AND METHOD FOR DETECTING ANTIGEN | KARST, DAVID THOMAS | 1767 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jul 13, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialNational Institute for Materials Science has 7 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 7 art units and 7 examiners.
Devon Tylen Moore has the most, with 1 of National Institute for Materials Science's pending office actions.
Mostly Chemistry & Materials (USPTO Tech Center 1700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
