Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
1 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Point Plastic S R L is currently managing 1 pending office action within the Chemistry & Materials technology area. This action is being processed by 1 distinct examiner in 1 distinct art unit, suggesting a focused approach to its current patent filings. The concentration in a single art unit indicates that the company's current legal focus is on a specific chemical or material innovation.
The 1 distinct examiner assigned to the 1 pending office action represents the only point of contact for the company's current prosecution matters. This avoids the administrative burden of managing multiple examiner relationships or differing art unit procedures. Practitioners can focus their strategy on the specific feedback and historical patterns of this single examiner.
STONEHOCKER, VIRGINIA LEE is the busiest examiner for the portfolio, with 1 pending office action. As there is only 1 busiest examiner pending, the company's immediate patent goals are entirely dependent on the progress of this single action. The 1 pending office action constitutes the full extent of the company's current pending workload in this technology area.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| STONEHOCKER, VIRGINIA LEE | 1 | 81.1% | +15.4% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18036626 | POLYESTER-BASED COMPOSITION WITH HIGH BARRIER PROPERTIES AND ARTICLES OF PACKAGING CONTAINING THE SAME | STONEHOCKER, VIRGINIA 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18036626 | POLYESTER-BASED COMPOSITION WITH HIGH BARRIER PROPERTIES AND ARTICLES OF PACKAGING CONTAINING THE SAME | STONEHOCKER, VIRGINIA LEE | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1766 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18036626 | POLYESTER-BASED COMPOSITION WITH HIGH BARRIER PROPERTIES AND ARTICLES OF PACKAGING CONTAINING THE SAME | STONEHOCKER, VIRGINIA LEE | 1766 | §102§103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | May 11, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialPoint Plastic S R L has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Virginia Lee Stonehocker has the most, with 1 of Point Plastic S R L's pending office actions.
Mostly Chemistry & Materials (USPTO Tech Center 1700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
