Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
6 pending office actions • 5 art units • 6 examiners • 0 of 6 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 2 patents granted in the last 365 days
Provigate Inc. currently has 6 pending office actions in the Chemistry & Materials technology area. These matters are distributed among 6 distinct examiners and 5 distinct art units. KAUR, GURPREET is the busiest examiner with 1 pending action. The high number of 5 distinct art units for only 6 pending actions suggests that the company's technology is highly varied or multidisciplinary.
Practitioners should expect a wide range of examination styles and technical requirements across these 5 different art units. With 6 pending office actions and 6 distinct examiners, there is no examiner overlap, requiring a unique strategy for every active application in the portfolio.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 2 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 |
|---|---|
| §101 + other | 1 (17%) |
| §103 only | 1 (17%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 4 (67%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| KAUR, GURPREET | 1 | 65.4% | +35.5% |
| FRITCHMAN, REBECCA M | 1 | 45.6% | +35.4% |
| HUANG, MICKEY NMN | 1 | 60.0% | +48.0% |
| HERON, VELVET ELIZABETH | 1 | 52.4% | +43.3% |
| KASS, BENJAMIN JOSEPH | 1 | 31.1% | +64.4% |
| HRANEK, KAREN AMANDA | 1 | 34.7% | +40.4% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 5 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17258670 | HEALTHCARE MANAGEMENT METHOD | HRANEK, KAREN AMANDA | 9d |
| 18793061 | GLYCATED PROTEIN SENSOR, MEASUREMENT METHOD, PROGRAM, AND SENSOR MANUFACTURE METHOD | KAUR, GURPREET | — |
| 18725649 | METHOD, APPARATUS AND PIPETTE CARTRIDGE FOR MEASURING ELEMENT OF BLOOD CELL COMPONENT AND ELEMENT OF NON-BLOOD CELL COMPONENT IN MINUTE AMOUNT OF BLOOD | FRITCHMAN, REBECCA M | — |
| 18262125 | MICROPLATE, MEASUREMENT METHOD USING THE SAME, AUTOMATIC MEASUREMENT SYSTEM, AND PROGRAM | HERON, VELVET ELIZABETH | — |
| 18000307 | LIQUID COLLECTOR AND METHOD FOR COLLECTING LIQUID | KASS, BENJAMIN JOSEPH | — |
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 6 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18262043 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR EVALUATING DEGREE OF GLYCATION OF PROTEIN | HUANG, MICKEY NMN | 19d overdue |
| 17258670 | HEALTHCARE MANAGEMENT METHOD | HRANEK, KAREN AMANDA | 9d |
| 18793061 | GLYCATED PROTEIN SENSOR, MEASUREMENT METHOD, PROGRAM, AND SENSOR MANUFACTURE METHOD | KAUR, GURPREET | — |
| 18725649 | METHOD, APPARATUS AND PIPETTE CARTRIDGE FOR MEASURING ELEMENT OF BLOOD CELL COMPONENT AND ELEMENT OF NON-BLOOD CELL COMPONENT IN MINUTE AMOUNT OF BLOOD | FRITCHMAN, REBECCA M | — |
| 18262125 | MICROPLATE, MEASUREMENT METHOD USING THE SAME, AUTOMATIC MEASUREMENT SYSTEM, AND PROGRAM | HERON, VELVET ELIZABETH | — |
| 18000307 | LIQUID COLLECTOR AND METHOD FOR COLLECTING LIQUID | KASS, BENJAMIN JOSEPH | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1758 | 2 |
| 1759 | 1 |
| 1798 | 1 |
| 1797 | 1 |
| 3684 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18793061 | GLYCATED PROTEIN SENSOR, MEASUREMENT METHOD, PROGRAM, AND SENSOR MANUFACTURE METHOD | KAUR, GURPREET | 1759 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 02, 2024 |
| 18725649 | METHOD, APPARATUS AND PIPETTE CARTRIDGE FOR MEASURING ELEMENT OF BLOOD CELL COMPONENT AND ELEMENT OF NON-BLOOD CELL COMPONENT IN MINUTE AMOUNT OF BLOOD | FRITCHMAN, REBECCA M | 1758 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 28, 2024 |
| 18262043 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR EVALUATING DEGREE OF GLYCATION OF PROTEIN | HUANG, MICKEY NMN | 1758 | §103 | Final Rejection | 19d overdue | Pending | Jul 19, 2023 |
| 18262125 | MICROPLATE, MEASUREMENT METHOD USING THE SAME, AUTOMATIC MEASUREMENT SYSTEM, AND PROGRAM | HERON, VELVET ELIZABETH | 1798 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 19, 2023 |
| 18000307 | LIQUID COLLECTOR AND METHOD FOR COLLECTING LIQUID | KASS, BENJAMIN JOSEPH | 1797 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 30, 2022 |
| 17258670 | HEALTHCARE MANAGEMENT METHOD | HRANEK, KAREN AMANDA | 3684 | §101§112 | Non-Final OA | 9d | Pending | Jun 16, 2021 |
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Start Free TrialProvigate Inc. has 6 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 5 art units and 6 examiners.
Gurpreet Kaur has the most, with 1 of Provigate Inc.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Chemistry & Materials (USPTO Tech Center 1700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
