Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
3 pending office actions • 3 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 3 patents granted in the last 365 days
Solmics Co. Ltd. has 3 pending office actions in Chemistry & Materials. The matters involve 2 examiners across 3 art units, indicating art-unit breadth and some examiner concentration.
WIESE, NOAH S is the busiest examiner, with 2 pending matters. Counsel can coordinate the matters before that examiner while separately managing the remaining assignment.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 2 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.
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 | 2 (67%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (33%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| WIESE, NOAH S | 2 | 83.4% | -1.8% |
| FORD, NATHAN K | 1 | 32.6% | +35.2% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18468959 | SINTERED BODY AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING SINTERED BODY | WIESE, NOAH S | 26d |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18468903 | SINTERED BODY AND PARTS INCLUDING SAME | WIESE, NOAH S | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18359953 | FOCUS RING AND PLASMA ETCHING APPARATUS COMPRISING THE SAME | FORD, NATHAN K | 39d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1783 | 1 |
| 1731 | 1 |
| 1716 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18468903 | SINTERED BODY AND PARTS INCLUDING SAME | WIESE, NOAH S | 1783 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 18, 2023 |
| 18468959 | SINTERED BODY AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING SINTERED BODY | WIESE, NOAH S | 1731 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 26d | Pending | Sep 18, 2023 |
| 18359953 | FOCUS RING AND PLASMA ETCHING APPARATUS COMPRISING THE SAME | FORD, NATHAN K | 1716 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 39d | Pending | Jul 27, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialSolmics Co. Ltd. has 3 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 3 art units and 2 examiners.
Noah S Wiese has the most, with 2 of Solmics Co. Ltd.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Chemistry & Materials (USPTO Tech Center 1700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
