Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
1 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 2 patents granted in the last 365 days
Rapiscan Systems Inc. is currently managing 1 pending office action in the Chemistry & Materials technology area. This single prosecution matter is assigned to 1 distinct examiner and is being reviewed within 1 distinct art unit. This suggests a highly focused technical direction for the company's current patent activities in this field.
The busiest examiner for this portfolio is FREEMAN, JOHN D, who is currently overseeing 1 pending office action. As this is the only pending action for the company, the outcome of the prosecution depends entirely on the interaction with this specific examiner. Practitioners should prioritize understanding the preferences and historical patterns of this 1 distinct examiner to move the case toward allowance.
The concentration of the 1 pending office action in 1 distinct art unit simplifies the administrative burden of the prosecution process. There are no conflicting examiner viewpoints or varying art unit standards to navigate. The entire current effort is centered on the 1 pending office action under the review of FREEMAN, JOHN D, allowing for a streamlined and efficient legal strategy.
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 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FREEMAN, JOHN D | 1 | 45.8% | +7.1% |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1787 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18745644 | Methods and Systems for Attaching Detectors to Electronic Readout Substrates | FREEMAN, JOHN D | 1787 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 17, 2024 |
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Start Free TrialRapiscan Systems Inc. has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
John D Freeman has the most, with 1 of Rapiscan Systems Inc.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Chemistry & Materials (USPTO Tech Center 1700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
