Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
1 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 3 patents granted in the last 365 days
National Institute Of Clean-And-Low-Carbon Energy has 1 pending office action in Chemistry & Materials. The matter is handled by 1 distinct examiner within 1 distinct art unit, showing a concentrated prosecution path. LENIHAN, JEFFREY S is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending matter.
The profile supports a single-context review of the chemistry and materials claims and the outstanding action. No further examiner or art-unit assignment is recorded, so counsel can develop one coordinated response strategy. Technical explanations should be tied closely to the disclosed materials and to the distinctions needed before the identified examiner.
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 |
|---|---|
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| LENIHAN, JEFFREY S | 1 | 73.0% | +17.0% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17770228 | POLYPROPYLENE MODIFYING AGENT AND PREPARATION METHOD THEREFOR, POLYPROPYLENE COMPOSITION, AND POLYPROPYLENE MATERIAL AND PREPARATION METHOD THEREFOR | LENIHAN, JEFFREY S | 27d |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17770228 | POLYPROPYLENE MODIFYING AGENT AND PREPARATION METHOD THEREFOR, POLYPROPYLENE COMPOSITION, AND POLYPROPYLENE MATERIAL AND PREPARATION METHOD THEREFOR | LENIHAN, JEFFREY S | 27d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1765 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17770228 | POLYPROPYLENE MODIFYING AGENT AND PREPARATION METHOD THEREFOR, POLYPROPYLENE COMPOSITION, AND POLYPROPYLENE MATERIAL AND PREPARATION METHOD THEREFOR | LENIHAN, JEFFREY S | 1765 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | 27d | Pending | Apr 19, 2022 |
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Start Free TrialNational Institute Of Clean-And-Low-Carbon Energy has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Jeffrey S Lenihan has the most, with 1 of National Institute Of Clean-And-Low-Carbon Energy's pending office actions.
Mostly Chemistry & Materials (USPTO Tech Center 1700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
