Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
1 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Polygroup Services N A Inc. is managing 1 pending office action in the Chemistry & Materials technology area. This action is assigned to a single examiner, MCGANN, BERNADETTE KAREN, who is also the busiest examiner for the portfolio with 1 pending action.
The portfolio's current activity is limited to 1 distinct art unit. This indicates a focused prosecution profile where all active work is handled by one examiner within one specific technical group.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| MCGANN, BERNADETTE KAREN | 1 | 64.1% | +18.0% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18792414 | BUOYANCY CLEANING DEVICE FOR ABOVEGROUND POOL | MCGANN, BERNADETTE KAREN | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18792414 | BUOYANCY CLEANING DEVICE FOR ABOVEGROUND POOL | MCGANN, BERNADETTE KAREN | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1773 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18792414 | BUOYANCY CLEANING DEVICE FOR ABOVEGROUND POOL | MCGANN, BERNADETTE KAREN | 1773 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 01, 2024 |
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Start Free TrialPolygroup Services N A Inc. has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Bernadette Karen Mcgann has the most, with 1 of Polygroup Services N A Inc.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Chemistry & Materials (USPTO Tech Center 1700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
