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
Pfeiffer Vacuum currently has 1 pending office action in the Chemistry & Materials technology area. This action is assigned to 1 distinct examiner, KUYKENDALL, ALYSSA LEE, within 1 distinct art unit. This represents a singular point of contact for the company's current patent prosecution.
As the busiest examiner, KUYKENDALL, ALYSSA LEE handles 1 pending office action. The company's immediate success in this technology area is contingent upon the specific requirements and feedback from this 1 examiner and art unit.
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 | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| KUYKENDALL, ALYSSA LEE | 1 | 18.5% | +75.5% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18004632 | GAS TREATMENT DEVICE AND VACUUM LINE | KUYKENDALL, ALYSSA LEE | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18004632 | GAS TREATMENT DEVICE AND VACUUM LINE | KUYKENDALL, ALYSSA LEE | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1774 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18004632 | GAS TREATMENT DEVICE AND VACUUM LINE | KUYKENDALL, ALYSSA LEE | 1774 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 06, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialPfeiffer Vacuum has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Alyssa Lee Kuykendall has the most, with 1 of Pfeiffer Vacuum's pending office actions.
Mostly Chemistry & Materials (USPTO Tech Center 1700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
