Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
1 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Savfe Co. Ltd. maintains a company patent portfolio within the Chemistry & Materials technology area. The portfolio currently features 1 pending office action, which is being reviewed by 1 distinct examiner. This indicates a very focused point of interaction with the USPTO, as all current prosecution activity is limited to a single pending matter. This activity is situated within 1 distinct art unit.
The busiest examiner for this portfolio is WEYDEMEYER, ETHAN, who is responsible for 1 busiest examiner pending office action. Because the total number of pending office actions is 1, this examiner is the sole individual currently evaluating the company's claims. The alignment of 1 pending office action with 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit suggests a highly specific technological focus for the current filings.
For a patent practitioner, this concentration means that the immediate success of the portfolio depends entirely on the feedback from WEYDEMEYER, ETHAN. There are no other distinct examiners or distinct art units available within the data to provide a comparative baseline for prosecution performance. The single art unit involved will dictate the procedural and technical standards that the company must meet to secure its chemistry and materials patents.
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 |
|---|---|
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| WEYDEMEYER, ETHAN | 1 | 44.2% | +43.7% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18297023 | SURGICAL GUIDELINE MARKING LAYER, METHODS OF PRODUCING AND METHODS OF USING THEREOF | WEYDEMEYER, ETHAN | 27d |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18297023 | SURGICAL GUIDELINE MARKING LAYER, METHODS OF PRODUCING AND METHODS OF USING THEREOF | WEYDEMEYER, ETHAN | 27d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1783 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18297023 | SURGICAL GUIDELINE MARKING LAYER, METHODS OF PRODUCING AND METHODS OF USING THEREOF | WEYDEMEYER, ETHAN | 1783 | §102§103§112 | Final Rejection | 27d | Pending | Apr 07, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialSavfe Co. Ltd. has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Ethan Weydemeyer has the most, with 1 of Savfe Co. Ltd.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Chemistry & Materials (USPTO Tech Center 1700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
