Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
1 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Sahara International Petrochemical Company (Sipchem) has 1 pending office action in the Chemistry & Materials technology area. This action is located within 1 distinct art unit and is assigned to 1 distinct examiner. The current prosecution activity for the company is limited to this single matter, representing a highly focused interaction with the patent office.
Ariella Machness is the busiest examiner for the company, overseeing the 1 pending office action. With only 1 examiner and 1 distinct art unit involved, the company's current prosecution effort is concentrated on a single set of technical issues. This allows for a direct and specialized approach to resolving the pending application without the complexity of multiple filings.
For practitioners, the 1 to 1 ratio of actions to examiners means that the entire current portfolio depends on the decisions of Ariella Machness. There are no other pending office actions to consider, which eliminates the risk of making conflicting arguments across different applications. The focus remains entirely on the specific requirements of the 1 distinct art unit and the preferences of the single assigned examiner.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| MACHNESS, ARIELLA | 1 | 61.5% | +27.4% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19014065 | A METHOD OF MAKING A FOAMED ARTICLE | MACHNESS, ARIELLA | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1743 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19014065 | A METHOD OF MAKING A FOAMED ARTICLE | MACHNESS, ARIELLA | 1743 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 08, 2025 |
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Start Free TrialSahara International Petrochemical Company (Sipchem) has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Ariella Machness has the most, with 1 of Sahara International Petrochemical Company (Sipchem)'s pending office actions.
Mostly Chemistry & Materials (USPTO Tech Center 1700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
