Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
3 pending office actions • 3 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 6 patents granted in the last 365 days
Pax Labs Inc. has 4 pending office actions within the Chemistry & Materials technology area. These 4 actions are split among 4 distinct examiners and 4 distinct art units. YAARY, ERIC is the busiest examiner for the portfolio with 1 busiest examiner pending action. Since there are 4 pending office actions and 4 distinct examiners, the workload is distributed evenly, with each examiner handling exactly one matter.
This distributed workload across 4 distinct art units indicates that the company's current chemistry filings are diverse in their technical classification. Because each of the 4 pending office actions is assigned to a different distinct examiner, there is no opportunity to leverage a single examiner's familiarity across multiple applications. YAARY, ERIC, as the busiest examiner with 1 busiest examiner pending action, represents a single component of the active prosecution effort. Practitioners must prepare for unique examination styles, as the 4 distinct examiners operate independently across their respective 4 distinct art units. The Chemistry & Materials portfolio requires managing these matters without the benefit of examiner consolidation.
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 |
|---|---|
| §102 only | 1 (33%) |
| Double-patenting only | 1 (33%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (33%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| YOO, HONG THI | 1 | 46.0% | +25.3% |
| WILL, KATHERINE A | 1 | 67.4% | +20.1% |
| NGUYEN, PHU HOANG | 1 | 66.0% | +19.6% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18549297 | OPERATIONAL MODE SELECTION OF A VAPORIZER DEVICE | NGUYEN, PHU HOANG | — |
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 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18421313 | RAPID ONSET CANNABINOID COMPOSITIONS | YOO, HONG THI | — |
| 18420603 | TEMPERATURE ADJUSTMENT OF A VAPORIZER DEVICE | WILL, KATHERINE A | — |
| 18549297 | OPERATIONAL MODE SELECTION OF A VAPORIZER DEVICE | NGUYEN, PHU HOANG | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1792 | 1 |
| 1747 | 1 |
| 1700 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18421313 | RAPID ONSET CANNABINOID COMPOSITIONS | YOO, HONG THI | 1792 | §102 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jan 24, 2024 |
| 18420603 | TEMPERATURE ADJUSTMENT OF A VAPORIZER DEVICE | WILL, KATHERINE A | 1747 | DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 23, 2024 |
| 18549297 | OPERATIONAL MODE SELECTION OF A VAPORIZER DEVICE | NGUYEN, PHU HOANG | 1700 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 06, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialPax Labs Inc. has 3 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 3 art units and 3 examiners.
Hong Thi Yoo has the most, with 1 of Pax Labs Inc.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Chemistry & Materials (USPTO Tech Center 1700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
