Technology areas: Chemistry & Materials • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
4 pending office actions • 3 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 4 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 3 patents granted in the last 365 days
Sanford L.P. has 3 pending office actions in Chemistry & Materials. The matters are distributed among 3 distinct examiners and 3 distinct art units, giving each open matter a separate examination setting.
OLIVER, BRADLEY S is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending matter. The absence of a larger examiner cluster places the emphasis on matter-specific claim analysis and coordinated docket management across the three assignments.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 1 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.
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 (50%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| OLIVER, BRADLEY S | 2 | 61.0% | +14.4% |
| WANG, HAOPENG | 1 | — | — |
| COOLEY, CHARLES E | 1 | 79.0% | +15.3% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18295035 | STIRRERS FOR CURABLE COMPOSITIONS | COOLEY, CHARLES E | 160d overdue |
| 18439139 | OPAQUE INK COMPOSITION | WANG, HAOPENG | — |
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 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18295035 | STIRRERS FOR CURABLE COMPOSITIONS | COOLEY, CHARLES E | 160d overdue |
| 19215853 | WRITING INSTRUMENT | OLIVER, BRADLEY S | — |
| 17995528 | WRITING INSTRUMENTS AND ASSOCIATED NIB ASSEMBLIES | OLIVER, BRADLEY S | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3754 | 2 |
| 1763 | 1 |
| 1774 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19215853 | WRITING INSTRUMENT | OLIVER, BRADLEY S | 3754 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 22, 2025 |
| 18439139 | OPAQUE INK COMPOSITION | WANG, HAOPENG | 1763 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 12, 2024 |
| 18295035 | STIRRERS FOR CURABLE COMPOSITIONS | COOLEY, CHARLES E | 1774 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | 160d overdue | Pending | Apr 03, 2023 |
| 17995528 | WRITING INSTRUMENTS AND ASSOCIATED NIB ASSEMBLIES | OLIVER, BRADLEY S | 3754 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 05, 2022 |
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Start Free TrialSanford L.P. has 4 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 3 art units and 3 examiners.
Bradley S Oliver has the most, with 2 of Sanford L.P.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
