Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
1 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Norwood Architecture Inc. has 1 pending office action in the Chemistry & Materials technology area. This single action is assigned to a distinct examiner and is located within a distinct art unit, representing a very focused prosecution profile. The concentration of the entire active portfolio in a single art unit and under a single examiner indicates a single point of administrative and technical oversight at the patent office.
The busiest examiner for the company is SIMONE, CATHERINE A, who is responsible for the 1 pending office action. This examiner and the associated art unit represent the entirety of the company's current active presence. For a practitioner, this means that all active Chemistry & Materials prosecution is consolidated under SIMONE, CATHERINE A. This lack of dispersion allows for a highly targeted strategy within a single administrative group.
The active office action is handled by a distinct examiner within a distinct art unit. SIMONE, CATHERINE A is the busiest examiner, managing the total workload currently on record. This focused structure is the primary characteristic of the company's active patent applications in the chemistry space. There are no other examiners or art units involved in the current workload.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| SIMONE, CATHERINE A | 1 | 73.3% | +22.9% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18777121 | STRUCTURAL MEMBRANE BRACING | SIMONE, CATHERINE A | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18777121 | STRUCTURAL MEMBRANE BRACING | SIMONE, CATHERINE A | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1781 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18777121 | STRUCTURAL MEMBRANE BRACING | SIMONE, CATHERINE A | 1781 | §102§103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jul 18, 2024 |
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Start Free TrialNorwood Architecture Inc. has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Catherine A Simone has the most, with 1 of Norwood Architecture Inc.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Chemistry & Materials (USPTO Tech Center 1700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
