Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
1 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 5 patents granted in the last 365 days
Sica S P A has 1 pending office action in Chemistry & Materials. The matter is assigned to 1 examiner and 1 art unit, and LIU, XUE H is the busiest identified examiner with 1 pending matter.
The available data describes a single, concentrated prosecution path. Counsel can focus its preparation on the assigned art unit and examiner without needing to reconcile different examination assignments.
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 |
|---|---|
| §112 only | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| LIU, XUE H | 1 | 73.1% | +12.6% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19183006 | MACHINE AND METHOD FOR BELLING PVC-O PIPES | LIU, XUE H | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1742 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19183006 | MACHINE AND METHOD FOR BELLING PVC-O PIPES | LIU, XUE H | 1742 | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 18, 2025 |
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Start Free TrialSica S P A has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Xue H Liu has the most, with 1 of Sica S P A's pending office actions.
Mostly Chemistry & Materials (USPTO Tech Center 1700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
