Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Sad Ip Holdings LLC has 2 pending office actions in Chemistry & Materials. The matters involve 2 distinct examiners and 2 distinct art units, indicating that the portfolio’s pending work is distributed across separate examination channels. Counsel should maintain matter-specific analysis and coordinate positions only where the underlying chemistry and materials issues support doing so.
LE, TOBEY CHOU is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending matter. The examiner handles part of the record, while the other pending matter is assigned elsewhere. The prosecution plan should therefore combine centralized docket oversight with separate evaluation of each action, claim set, and amendment opportunity.
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 (50%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (50%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| LE, TOBEY CHOU | 1 | 27.8% | +51.9% |
| FELTON, MICHAEL J | 1 | 59.6% | +14.5% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18415417 | DEVICES AND METHODS FOR FRICTIONLESS COMPACTION OF SMOKABLE PRODUCTS | LE, TOBEY CHOU | — |
| 17876902 | DEVICES AND METHODS FOR PRE-ROLLED SMOKING TUBES | FELTON, MICHAEL J | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18415417 | DEVICES AND METHODS FOR FRICTIONLESS COMPACTION OF SMOKABLE PRODUCTS | LE, TOBEY CHOU | — |
| 17876902 | DEVICES AND METHODS FOR PRE-ROLLED SMOKING TUBES | FELTON, MICHAEL J | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 4100 | 1 |
| 1747 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18415417 | DEVICES AND METHODS FOR FRICTIONLESS COMPACTION OF SMOKABLE PRODUCTS | LE, TOBEY CHOU | 4100 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jan 17, 2024 |
| 17876902 | DEVICES AND METHODS FOR PRE-ROLLED SMOKING TUBES | FELTON, MICHAEL J | 1747 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 29, 2022 |
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Start Free TrialSad Ip Holdings LLC has 2 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 2 art units and 2 examiners.
Tobey Chou Le has the most, with 1 of Sad Ip Holdings LLC's pending office actions.
Mostly Chemistry & Materials (USPTO Tech Center 1700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
