Technology areas: Chemistry & Materials • Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics
4 pending office actions • 3 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 4 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 12 patents granted in the last 365 days
Research Products Corporation maintains a patent portfolio focused on the Chemistry & Materials technology area. The company currently manages 4 pending office actions across its active filings. This volume of pending actions indicates a consistent level of ongoing engagement with the patent office within this specific technical field. The presence of multiple actions suggests that the portfolio is in an active phase of prosecution.
The prosecution work is distributed among 3 distinct examiners and 3 distinct art units. The count of 3 distinct examiners matches the count of 3 distinct art units, suggesting a diverse range of technical sub-specialties within the Chemistry & Materials sector. Practitioners should note that the workload is spread across multiple points of contact at the patent office, requiring a strategy that accounts for different examiner perspectives. The distribution across 3 art units further confirms the technical breadth of the applications.
KURTZ, BENJAMIN M is identified as the busiest examiner for Research Products Corporation. This individual is responsible for 2 pending office actions. Because KURTZ, BENJAMIN M handles a significant portion of the current pending actions, his specific examination style and preferences will influence the overall prosecution outcomes. Monitoring the trends and past decisions of this specific examiner is a critical component of managing the company's intellectual property assets.
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 (25%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 2 (50%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (25%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| KURTZ, BENJAMIN M | 2 | 56.7% | +17.7% |
| CLEMENTE, ROBERT ARTHUR | 1 | 80.9% | +7.5% |
| LEE, BYUNG RO | 1 | 74.2% | +13.8% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18758146 | FILTER-HOUSING INTERFACE DESIGNS FOR HEATING, VENTILATION, AND AIR CONDITIONING SYSTEMS | CLEMENTE, ROBERT ARTHUR | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18817546 | FILTER-HOUSING INTERFACE DESIGNS FOR HEATING, VENTILATION, AND/OR AIR CONDITIONING SYSTEMS | KURTZ, BENJAMIN M | — |
| 18818315 | FILTER-HOUSING INTERFACE DESIGNS FOR HEATING, VENTILATION, AND/OR AIR CONDITIONING SYSTEMS | KURTZ, BENJAMIN M | — |
| 18657418 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR SENSING ABNORMAL FAN OPERATION VIA COMPRESSOR SUCTION SENSOR | LEE, BYUNG RO | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1779 | 2 |
| 1773 | 1 |
| 2858 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18817546 | FILTER-HOUSING INTERFACE DESIGNS FOR HEATING, VENTILATION, AND/OR AIR CONDITIONING SYSTEMS | KURTZ, BENJAMIN M | 1779 | §102§103§112DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 28, 2024 |
| 18818315 | FILTER-HOUSING INTERFACE DESIGNS FOR HEATING, VENTILATION, AND/OR AIR CONDITIONING SYSTEMS | KURTZ, BENJAMIN M | 1779 | §103§112DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 28, 2024 |
| 18758146 | FILTER-HOUSING INTERFACE DESIGNS FOR HEATING, VENTILATION, AND AIR CONDITIONING SYSTEMS | CLEMENTE, ROBERT ARTHUR | 1773 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 28, 2024 |
| 18657418 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR SENSING ABNORMAL FAN OPERATION VIA COMPRESSOR SUCTION SENSOR | LEE, BYUNG RO | 2858 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 07, 2024 |
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Start Free TrialResearch Products Corporation has 4 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 3 art units and 3 examiners.
Benjamin M Kurtz has the most, with 2 of Research Products Corporation's pending office actions.
Mostly Chemistry & Materials (USPTO Tech Center 1700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
