Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
3 pending office actions • 3 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
RESTEK Corporation currently manages 3 pending office actions within the Chemistry & Materials technology area. These matters are distributed across 3 distinct examiners and an equal number of distinct art units. This distribution indicates a broad spread of prosecution across different USPTO personnel. Each active case is being reviewed by a different examiner in a separate administrative unit, suggesting a diverse range of chemical technologies in the portfolio.
BAUM, ZACHARY JOHN is the busiest examiner for the company with 1 pending office action. Given that the total pending office actions are split among several examiners, no single examiner holds a majority of the company's active cases. This distribution requires the company to navigate the specific preferences of multiple art units simultaneously. For the practitioner, the strategy must be tailored to the individual examination styles and technical requirements of each examiner across the various units, as there is no central point of contact for the current portfolio.
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 | 2 (67%) |
| §102 only | 1 (33%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| BAUM, ZACHARY JOHN | 1 | 81.2% | +15.2% |
| MUTREJA, JYOTI NAGPAUL | 1 | 81.1% | +4.0% |
| KRCHA, MATTHEW D | 1 | 64.3% | +35.5% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18293203 | SILICA-PASSIVATED ARTICLE AND METHOD FOR FORMING | BAUM, ZACHARY JOHN | — |
| 18558426 | TAYLOR CONE EMITTER DEVICE AUTOMATED HANDLER, TAYLOR CONE EMITTER DEVICE AUTOMATED HANDLING SYSTEM, AND METHOD FOR ANALYZING A SAMPLE | MUTREJA, JYOTI NAGPAUL | — |
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 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18293203 | SILICA-PASSIVATED ARTICLE AND METHOD FOR FORMING | BAUM, ZACHARY JOHN | — |
| 18558405 | TAYLOR CONE EMITTER DEVICE RESPOSITORY, TAYLOR CONE EMITTER DEVICE RESPOSITORY SYSTEM, AND METHOD FOR ANALYZING A POPULATION OF SAMPLES | KRCHA, MATTHEW D | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1736 | 1 |
| 1798 | 1 |
| 1796 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18293203 | SILICA-PASSIVATED ARTICLE AND METHOD FOR FORMING | BAUM, ZACHARY JOHN | 1736 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 29, 2024 |
| 18558426 | TAYLOR CONE EMITTER DEVICE AUTOMATED HANDLER, TAYLOR CONE EMITTER DEVICE AUTOMATED HANDLING SYSTEM, AND METHOD FOR ANALYZING A SAMPLE | MUTREJA, JYOTI NAGPAUL | 1798 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 01, 2023 |
| 18558405 | TAYLOR CONE EMITTER DEVICE RESPOSITORY, TAYLOR CONE EMITTER DEVICE RESPOSITORY SYSTEM, AND METHOD FOR ANALYZING A POPULATION OF SAMPLES | KRCHA, MATTHEW D | 1796 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Nov 01, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialRESTEK Corporation has 3 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 3 art units and 3 examiners.
Zachary John Baum has the most, with 1 of RESTEK Corporation's pending office actions.
Mostly Chemistry & Materials (USPTO Tech Center 1700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
