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
Safetraces Inc. currently has 1 pending office action within the Chemistry & Materials technology area. This action is under the review of 1 distinct examiner, NGUYEN, HENRY H, who is the busiest examiner for the company. The involvement of 1 distinct art unit suggests that the company's current legal activity is concentrated within a specific technical domain of Chemistry & Materials.
The 1 busiest examiner pending action assigned to NGUYEN, HENRY H accounts for the entirety of the 1 pending office action currently on record. This means that the company's prosecution is entirely centralized under one individual. The 1 distinct art unit further suggests that the technical subject matter is not spread across different examination groups within the Chemistry & Materials field.
Practitioners can benefit from this concentration by focusing all resources on the specific requirements of NGUYEN, HENRY H. Since there is only 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit, the prosecution strategy does not need to account for varying examiner behaviors. The resolution of the 1 pending office action will be the most significant event for the portfolio in the near term.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| NGUYEN, HENRY H | 1 | 63.5% | +36.7% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18624357 | Assessing UV Germicidal Effectiveness Using DNA Tags | NGUYEN, HENRY H | — |
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 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18624357 | Assessing UV Germicidal Effectiveness Using DNA Tags | NGUYEN, HENRY H | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1758 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18624357 | Assessing UV Germicidal Effectiveness Using DNA Tags | NGUYEN, HENRY H | 1758 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 02, 2024 |
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Start Free TrialSafetraces Inc. has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Henry H Nguyen has the most, with 1 of Safetraces Inc.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Chemistry & Materials (USPTO Tech Center 1700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
