Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
1 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Schlenk Metallic Pigments GmbH has 2 pending office actions within the Chemistry & Materials technology area. These actions are assigned to 2 distinct examiners, which indicates that each matter is being reviewed by a different official. The prosecution is split across 2 distinct art units, showing that the technical content is divided administratively. The 2 distinct art units match the count of 2 distinct examiners, creating a decentralized structure.
WALTERS JR, ROBERT S is the busiest examiner, holding 1 busiest examiner pending office action. This 1 action is part of the 2 pending office actions currently active. With 2 distinct examiners and 2 distinct art units, the portfolio is spread across both individuals and administrative divisions. Practitioners must manage multiple points of contact to address the 2 pending office actions. The concentration of 1 busiest examiner pending action per examiner suggests a balanced workload within the Chemistry & Materials sector.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| TADAYYON ESLAMI, TABASSOM | 1 | 49.4% | +26.4% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17767583 | HIGH-COATING METAL EFFECT PIGMENTS | TADAYYON ESLAMI, TABASSOM | 119d overdue |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17767583 | HIGH-COATING METAL EFFECT PIGMENTS | TADAYYON ESLAMI, TABASSOM | 119d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1718 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17767583 | HIGH-COATING METAL EFFECT PIGMENTS | TADAYYON ESLAMI, TABASSOM | 1718 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | 119d overdue | Pending | Apr 08, 2022 |
IP Author helps IP teams respond to office actions faster with AI-generated responses, examiner analytics, and prosecution intelligence.
Start Free TrialSchlenk Metallic Pigments GmbH has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Tabassom Tadayyon Eslami has the most, with 1 of Schlenk Metallic Pigments GmbH's pending office actions.
Mostly Chemistry & Materials (USPTO Tech Center 1700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
