Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
1 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Pilot Chemical Corp. currently has 1 pending office action within the Chemistry & Materials technology area. This single active matter is located in 1 distinct art unit, pointing to a specific technical focus for the company's current patenting activity. The prosecution involves 1 distinct examiner, meaning the entire active portfolio is currently being reviewed by a single person at the patent office. This concentrated approach indicates that the company is focusing its resources on a specific chemical innovation.
The busiest examiner for this portfolio is DELCOTTO, GREGORY R, who is responsible for 1 pending office action. This individual represents the sole point of contact for the company's current pending matters. For a practitioner, this indicates that the immediate prosecution strategy is entirely dependent on the specific examiner's perspective. The presence of only 1 pending action across 1 art unit and 1 examiner suggests a targeted approach to intellectual property. With 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit, the prosecution environment is highly localized and lacks the complexity of multi-examiner portfolios.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| DELCOTTO, GREGORY R | 1 | 54.1% | +75.7% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19049070 | SYNERGISTIC COMBINATION OF POLYSACCHARIDE-BASED SURFACTANTS AND BIO-BASED SURFACTANTS | DELCOTTO, GREGORY R | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1761 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19049070 | SYNERGISTIC COMBINATION OF POLYSACCHARIDE-BASED SURFACTANTS AND BIO-BASED SURFACTANTS | DELCOTTO, GREGORY R | 1761 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 10, 2025 |
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Start Free TrialPilot Chemical Corp. has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Gregory R Delcotto has the most, with 1 of Pilot Chemical Corp.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Chemistry & Materials (USPTO Tech Center 1700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
