Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
1 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Signal Engineering Consulting LLC has 2 pending office actions in the Chemistry & Materials technology area. These actions are handled by 2 distinct examiners in 2 distinct art units. AHMED, SHEEBA is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending office action. The distribution across 2 different art units indicates that the pending matters involve distinct technical classifications within the chemistry field.
Because the portfolio has 2 pending office actions and 2 distinct examiners, the applicant must manage 2 independent prosecution tracks. This lack of concentration means that the strategy for 1 action may not necessarily apply to the other, especially since they are in 2 distinct art units. Practitioners should be prepared for different examiner behaviors and art unit standards for each case. AHMED, SHEEBA is responsible for only 1 of the actions, meaning no single examiner has a majority of the workload. This dispersion of 2 pending office actions across 2 distinct examiners ensures that the portfolio's success is not tied to a single individual's decision-making process.
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 | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FISCHER, JUSTIN R | 1 | 44.2% | +2.5% |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1749 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18932769 | LATEX COMPOUNDS WITH ENHANCED WATER BARRIER PROTECTION | FISCHER, JUSTIN R | 1749 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Oct 31, 2024 |
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Start Free TrialSignal Engineering Consulting LLC has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Justin R Fischer has the most, with 1 of Signal Engineering Consulting LLC's pending office actions.
Mostly Chemistry & Materials (USPTO Tech Center 1700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
