Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
1 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Soleras Advanced Coatings Bvba has 1 pending office action in the Chemistry & Materials technology area. The prosecution of this portfolio is limited to 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit. This suggests that the company's current patenting activity is concentrated on a single technical review path within the materials science sector. The single distinct art unit indicates that the company's filings are not currently spread across different examination groups at the USPTO, which may simplify the internal management of its intellectual property assets and legal strategy.
The busiest examiner, BAND, MICHAEL A, is handling 1 busiest examiner pending action. With only a single distinct examiner and art unit, the company's success in this matter depends on the specific interpretations of this examiner. The 1 pending office action is the only active prosecution item listed for this entity. This means that the company's entire current patent strategy is focused on resolving the pending office action with BAND, MICHAEL A, who is the sole official responsible for the company's active applications in this technology area. The outcome of this single interaction will define the company's immediate progress in 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 |
|---|---|
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| BAND, MICHAEL A | 1 | 45.1% | +55.7% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 16464106 | A UNIVERSALLY MOUNTABLE END-BLOCK | BAND, MICHAEL A | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1794 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 16464106 | A UNIVERSALLY MOUNTABLE END-BLOCK | BAND, MICHAEL A | 1794 | §102§103DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 24, 2019 |
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Start Free TrialSoleras Advanced Coatings Bvba has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Michael A Band has the most, with 1 of Soleras Advanced Coatings Bvba's pending office actions.
Mostly Chemistry & Materials (USPTO Tech Center 1700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
