Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Protifi LLC manages 2 pending office actions in the Chemistry & Materials technology area. These actions are assigned to 2 distinct examiners, showing a distribution of the company's current patent workload. The prosecution involves 2 distinct art units, indicating that the company's filings are being reviewed across different technical groups. Tracy Ching-Tian Colena is the busiest examiner, currently overseeing 1 pending office action.
The presence of 2 pending office actions across 2 distinct examiners suggests that the company's intellectual property is subject to multiple perspectives. Tracy Ching-Tian Colena's management of 1 pending office action represents a portion of the portfolio's active matters. Because the work is split between 2 distinct art units, the company must navigate different examination standards within the Chemistry & Materials field. This distribution across 2 distinct examiners ensures that the portfolio's progress is not entirely dependent on a single reviewer's discretion.
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 | 1 (50%) |
| §102 only | 1 (50%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| COLENA, TRACY CHING-TIAN | 1 | 81.8% | +42.4% |
| HANDY, DWAYNE K | 1 | 62.7% | +25.0% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18579042 | METHOD, APPARATUS AND SYSTEM OF INTERFERING-AGENT COMPATIBLE BIOMOLECULE STORAGE, TRANSPORT AND QUANTIFICATION | COLENA, TRACY CHING-TIAN | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17753329 | DETERGENT-FREE SIMULTANEOUS MULTIOMICS SAMPLE PREPARATION METHOD USING NOVEL NEW VESICLE DESIGN | HANDY, DWAYNE K | 30d |
| 18579042 | METHOD, APPARATUS AND SYSTEM OF INTERFERING-AGENT COMPATIBLE BIOMOLECULE STORAGE, TRANSPORT AND QUANTIFICATION | COLENA, TRACY CHING-TIAN | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1797 | 1 |
| 1798 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18579042 | METHOD, APPARATUS AND SYSTEM OF INTERFERING-AGENT COMPATIBLE BIOMOLECULE STORAGE, TRANSPORT AND QUANTIFICATION | COLENA, TRACY CHING-TIAN | 1797 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jan 12, 2024 |
| 17753329 | DETERGENT-FREE SIMULTANEOUS MULTIOMICS SAMPLE PREPARATION METHOD USING NOVEL NEW VESICLE DESIGN | HANDY, DWAYNE K | 1798 | §102 | Non-Final OA | 30d | Pending | Feb 28, 2022 |
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Start Free TrialProtifi LLC has 2 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 2 art units and 2 examiners.
Tracy Ching-Tian Colena has the most, with 1 of Protifi LLC's pending office actions.
Mostly Chemistry & Materials (USPTO Tech Center 1700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
