Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
2 pending office actions • 1 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Physidia has 2 pending office actions within the Chemistry & Materials technology area. These 2 matters are assigned to 2 distinct examiners, yet they both fall within 1 distinct art unit. This indicates that while different individuals are reviewing the applications, the technical focus remains within a single specialized group at the USPTO. Practitioners can expect the same art unit standards to apply to both active matters.
ROTONDI, CONNOR JON is the busiest examiner for the portfolio, with 1 pending office action. Since 2 distinct examiners each handle 1 matter, the workload is evenly split. However, because both examiners operate within the same 1 art unit, the company may find consistent procedural requirements across both pending office actions. This concentration in 1 art unit allows for a more unified prosecution strategy despite the involvement of 2 distinct examiners.
Managing 2 pending office actions with 2 different examiners requires attention to individual preferences, but the shared art unit provides a common baseline for legal arguments. The company's activity in the Chemistry & Materials sector is currently limited to these 2 matters. Success in this 1 art unit will be a significant indicator of the company's overall patent trajectory. Practitioners should monitor the specific trends of this art unit to better predict the outcomes for ROTONDI, CONNOR JON.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 2 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 |
|---|---|
| §103 only | 2 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ROTONDI, CONNOR JON | 1 | 40.0% | +40.0% |
| PEO, JONATHAN M | 1 | 48.4% | +47.6% |
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 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18560474 | Dialysis machine and corresponding method | ROTONDI, CONNOR JON | 32d overdue |
| 17800529 | DIALYSIS MACHINE AND METHOD FOR RINSING SAME | PEO, JONATHAN M | 10d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1779 | 2 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18560474 | Dialysis machine and corresponding method | ROTONDI, CONNOR JON | 1779 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 32d overdue | Pending | Nov 13, 2023 |
| 17800529 | DIALYSIS MACHINE AND METHOD FOR RINSING SAME | PEO, JONATHAN M | 1779 | §103 | Final Rejection | 10d overdue | Pending | Aug 17, 2022 |
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Start Free TrialPhysidia has 2 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 2 examiners.
Connor Jon Rotondi has the most, with 1 of Physidia's pending office actions.
Mostly Chemistry & Materials (USPTO Tech Center 1700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
