Technology areas: Chemistry & Materials • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
5 pending office actions • 4 art units • 5 examiners • 0 of 5 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 5 patents granted in the last 365 days
Pyrotek Inc. has 5 pending office actions in Chemistry & Materials. Those matters are distributed among 5 examiners and 4 art units, showing examiner-level breadth with some concentration at the art-unit level.
GILLENWATERS, JACKSON N is the listed busiest examiner, with 1 pending matter. No examiner accounts for more than that figure in the supplied data, so prosecution attention should be organized matter by matter rather than around one dominant examiner.
The combination of multiple examiners and fewer art units means related technical issues may arise across different examiner relationships within the same general technology area. Counsel can use the portfolio view to identify recurring claim, amendment, or prior-art themes, while preserving separate response strategies for each pending action.
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 |
|---|---|
| §103 only | 1 (20%) |
| §112 only | 1 (20%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 3 (60%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| GILLENWATERS, JACKSON N | 1 | 83.0% | +12.7% |
| TRAN, LEN | 1 | 15.6% | +25.2% |
| HA, STEVEN S | 1 | 70.4% | +29.6% |
| SMOOT, MORIAH SIMONE MCMIL | 1 | 64.2% | +7.5% |
| PULLEN, NIKOLAS TAKUYA | 1 | 52.5% | +8.4% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 4 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17908442 | MECHANICAL AUGER RECIRCULATION WELL | PULLEN, NIKOLAS TAKUYA | 15d overdue |
| 18838392 | CASTING FURNACE | HA, STEVEN S | 20d |
| 18881076 | MOLTEN METAL IMPELLER WITH ROCK GUARD | GILLENWATERS, JACKSON N | — |
| 18838976 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR IMPROVING ALUMINUM DEGASSING EFFICIENCY | TRAN, LEN | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18838392 | CASTING FURNACE | HA, STEVEN S | 20d |
| 18881076 | MOLTEN METAL IMPELLER WITH ROCK GUARD | GILLENWATERS, JACKSON N | — |
| 18838976 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR IMPROVING ALUMINUM DEGASSING EFFICIENCY | TRAN, LEN | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1733 | 2 |
| 3745 | 1 |
| 3763 | 1 |
| 1735 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18881076 | MOLTEN METAL IMPELLER WITH ROCK GUARD | GILLENWATERS, JACKSON N | 3745 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jan 03, 2025 |
| 18838976 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR IMPROVING ALUMINUM DEGASSING EFFICIENCY | TRAN, LEN | 3763 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 15, 2024 |
| 18838392 | CASTING FURNACE | HA, STEVEN S | 1735 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | 20d | Pending | Aug 14, 2024 |
| 18202395 | FILTER HANDLING TOOL | SMOOT, MORIAH SIMONE MCMIL | 1733 | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 26, 2023 |
| 17908442 | MECHANICAL AUGER RECIRCULATION WELL | PULLEN, NIKOLAS TAKUYA | 1733 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 15d overdue | Pending | Aug 31, 2022 |
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Start Free TrialPyrotek Inc. has 5 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 4 art units and 5 examiners.
Jackson N Gillenwaters has the most, with 1 of Pyrotek Inc.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Chemistry & Materials (USPTO Tech Center 1700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
