Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
1 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
The portfolio has 1 pending office action in Chemistry & Materials. The matter is handled by 1 distinct examiner in 1 distinct art unit, indicating a single examination path.
GROOMS, NOA WILLIAM FRAN is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending matter. The focused assignment allows counsel to direct prosecution analysis to that examiner and unit.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| GROOMS, NOA WILLIAM FRAN | 1 | 83.3% | +0.0% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18587841 | POWDER METALLURGICAL APPROACH TO A CoFe - AL2O3 SOFT MAGNETIC COMPOSITE | GROOMS, NOA WILLIAM FRAN | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1759 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18587841 | POWDER METALLURGICAL APPROACH TO A CoFe - AL2O3 SOFT MAGNETIC COMPOSITE | GROOMS, NOA WILLIAM FRAN | 1759 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 26, 2024 |
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Start Free TrialSandia National Laboratory has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Noa William Fran Grooms has the most, with 1 of Sandia National Laboratory's pending office actions.
Mostly Chemistry & Materials (USPTO Tech Center 1700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
