Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
1 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Sogefi Filtration currently manages 1 pending office action in the Chemistry & Materials technology area. This matter is assigned to 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit. The busiest examiner for the company is CARVALHO JR., ARMINDO, who is handling 1 pending office action. This concentrated activity reflects a narrow scope of current prosecution within the Chemistry & Materials sector.
Practitioners should note that the prosecution strategy is currently centralized under this single examiner and art unit, which may lead to consistent feedback but offers no diversification of examiner perspectives. Because there is only 1 pending action, the company's immediate success in the Chemistry & Materials sector depends entirely on the outcome of this one case. Navigating the requirements of CARVALHO JR., ARMINDO is the primary priority for the portfolio's current maintenance. This singular focus within 1 art unit simplifies the administrative tracking but increases the impact of any single examiner's decision on the overall portfolio. The company must ensure that its responses are perfectly tailored to the expectations of this specific examiner to avoid further delays.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| CARVALHO JR., ARMINDO | 1 | 50.2% | +27.6% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18682634 | ARRANGEMENT FOR PRESSURE COMPENSATION FOR BATTERY COMPARTMENT AND ASSEMBLY METHOD | CARVALHO JR., ARMINDO | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18682634 | ARRANGEMENT FOR PRESSURE COMPENSATION FOR BATTERY COMPARTMENT AND ASSEMBLY METHOD | CARVALHO JR., ARMINDO | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1729 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18682634 | ARRANGEMENT FOR PRESSURE COMPENSATION FOR BATTERY COMPARTMENT AND ASSEMBLY METHOD | CARVALHO JR., ARMINDO | 1729 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 09, 2024 |
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Start Free TrialSogefi Filtration has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Armindo Carvalho Jr. has the most, with 1 of Sogefi Filtration's pending office actions.
Mostly Chemistry & Materials (USPTO Tech Center 1700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
