Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
1 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Shieldmark Inc. has 1 pending office action in the Chemistry & Materials technology area. This matter is being prosecuted in 1 distinct art unit, showing a focused technical scope for the current filing. The prosecution involves 1 distinct examiner, concentrating the review of the company's work under a single official. This singular focus suggests that the entity is pursuing a specific chemical or materials-based advancement.
GHORISHI, SEYED BEHROOZ is the busiest examiner for the portfolio, overseeing 1 pending office action. This examiner is the only official currently reviewing the company's pending application. For a practitioner, this means the prosecution strategy is entirely focused on addressing the specific concerns of this one individual. The data shows a concentrated profile with 1 pending action, 1 examiner, and 1 art unit involved in the current cycle. With only 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit, the outcome of the current filing depends on a single set of technical and legal interpretations at the patent office.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| GHORISHI, SEYED BEHROOZ | 1 | 69.0% | +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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19049994 | Automated Machines and Methods to Apply Tape to a Surface | GHORISHI, SEYED BEHROOZ | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19049994 | Automated Machines and Methods to Apply Tape to a Surface | GHORISHI, SEYED BEHROOZ | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1748 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19049994 | Automated Machines and Methods to Apply Tape to a Surface | GHORISHI, SEYED BEHROOZ | 1748 | §103§112Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 10, 2025 |
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Start Free TrialShieldmark Inc. has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Seyed Behrooz Ghorishi has the most, with 1 of Shieldmark Inc.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Chemistry & Materials (USPTO Tech Center 1700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
