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
Oceanit Laboratories Inc. has 1 pending office action in the Chemistry & Materials technology area. This single matter is located within a single distinct art unit and is being reviewed by a single distinct examiner. This represents a highly focused point of interaction with the patent office for the company's current chemistry-related filings. The alignment of this case with a unique examiner and art unit suggests a streamlined prosecution path.
The busiest examiner for this portfolio is KENNEDY, TIMOTHY J, who is responsible for the 1 pending office action. As the only examiner involved, KENNEDY, TIMOTHY J handles the company's active prosecution workload. For a portfolio with this level of activity, the entire prosecution strategy centers on the specific requirements and feedback of this single examiner. Practitioners should focus on KENNEDY, TIMOTHY J's past decisions to anticipate the outcome of this 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 |
|---|---|
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| KENNEDY, TIMOTHY J | 1 | 71.3% | +17.5% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19210828 | HIGH-TENACITY KERATIN FIBERS | KENNEDY, TIMOTHY J | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19210828 | HIGH-TENACITY KERATIN FIBERS | KENNEDY, TIMOTHY J | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1742 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19210828 | HIGH-TENACITY KERATIN FIBERS | KENNEDY, TIMOTHY J | 1742 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 16, 2025 |
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Start Free TrialOceanit Laboratories Inc. has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Timothy J Kennedy has the most, with 1 of Oceanit Laboratories Inc.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Chemistry & Materials (USPTO Tech Center 1700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
