Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
3 pending office actions • 3 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 4 patents granted in the last 365 days
Postprocess Technologies Inc. has 3 pending office actions in the Chemistry & Materials technology area. Each action is situated in a different art unit, for a total of 3 distinct art units. The workload is divided among 3 distinct examiners, with LEE, DOUGLAS managing 1 pending office action as the busiest examiner. This distribution across 3 distinct art units indicates that the company's current prosecution is spread across multiple specialized examination groups.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 1 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 (67%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (33%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| LEE, DOUGLAS | 1 | 45.3% | +13.7% |
| GAMBETTA, KELLY M | 1 | 71.8% | +33.0% |
| MALEKZADEH, SEYED MASOUD | 1 | 67.2% | +31.9% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18879974 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR REMOVAL OF RESIN FROM 3D PRINTED OBJECTS | LEE, DOUGLAS | — |
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 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18975045 | FINISHING OF ADDITIVELY MANUFACTURED PARTS WITH SMOOTHING AND COLOR | GAMBETTA, KELLY M | 20d |
| 18879974 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR REMOVAL OF RESIN FROM 3D PRINTED OBJECTS | LEE, DOUGLAS | — |
| 18148527 | Surface Equalization Apparatus | MALEKZADEH, SEYED MASOUD | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1714 | 1 |
| 1718 | 1 |
| 1754 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18879974 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR REMOVAL OF RESIN FROM 3D PRINTED OBJECTS | LEE, DOUGLAS | 1714 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 30, 2024 |
| 18975045 | FINISHING OF ADDITIVELY MANUFACTURED PARTS WITH SMOOTHING AND COLOR | GAMBETTA, KELLY M | 1718 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 20d | Pending | Dec 10, 2024 |
| 18148527 | Surface Equalization Apparatus | MALEKZADEH, SEYED MASOUD | 1754 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Dec 30, 2022 |
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Start Free TrialPostprocess Technologies Inc. has 3 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 3 art units and 3 examiners.
Douglas Lee has the most, with 1 of Postprocess Technologies Inc.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Chemistry & Materials (USPTO Tech Center 1700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
