Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
1 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Quantafuel Asa maintains 1 pending office action in the Chemistry & Materials technology area. This prosecution activity is concentrated under 1 distinct examiner, MCAVOY, ELLEN M, who serves as the primary contact for the company's current patent office interactions. The presence of 1 distinct art unit reflects a singular technical focus for the pending application. This arrangement implies that the company's current legal challenges are confined to a specific administrative silo.
As the busiest examiner for the portfolio, MCAVOY, ELLEN M, handles 1 pending office action, which accounts for the total volume of the company's current workload. This distribution of 1 action to the busiest examiner out of the total pending matters suggests that the prosecution strategy does not currently involve a variety of examiner perspectives in the Chemistry & Materials space. Furthermore, the 1 distinct art unit involved means that the company is subject to a single set of departmental standards and supervisory reviews, rather than a distributed array of technical evaluations.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| MCAVOY, ELLEN M | 1 | 72.9% | +8.9% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18867425 | METHOD OF PREPARING HYDROGEN AND LIQUID FUEL FROM A PLASTIC FEEDSTOCK | MCAVOY, ELLEN M | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1771 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18867425 | METHOD OF PREPARING HYDROGEN AND LIQUID FUEL FROM A PLASTIC FEEDSTOCK | MCAVOY, ELLEN M | 1771 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 19, 2024 |
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Start Free TrialQuantafuel Asa has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Ellen M Mcavoy has the most, with 1 of Quantafuel Asa's pending office actions.
Mostly Chemistry & Materials (USPTO Tech Center 1700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
