Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
1 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 4 patents granted in the last 365 days
Societe Bic has 1 pending office action in Chemistry & Materials. The matter is handled by 1 examiner in 1 art unit, creating a single-track prosecution profile.
BARZACH, JEFFREY EUGENE is the identified examiner and has 1 pending matter. Counsel can concentrate on a direct response strategy tailored to that examiner’s requirements and the matter’s technical record.
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 |
|---|---|
| Double-patenting + other | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| BARZACH, JEFFREY EUGENE | 1 | 56.9% | +39.2% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18715526 | WAX CRAYON COMPRISING ZRO2 | BARZACH, JEFFREY EUGENE | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1731 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18715526 | WAX CRAYON COMPRISING ZRO2 | BARZACH, JEFFREY EUGENE | 1731 | §103§112DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 31, 2024 |
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Start Free TrialSociete Bic has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Jeffrey Eugene Barzach has the most, with 1 of Societe Bic's pending office actions.
Mostly Chemistry & Materials (USPTO Tech Center 1700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
