Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
1 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Soni-Form LLC currently manages 1 pending office action within the Chemistry & Materials technology area. This matter is being handled by SCHIFFMAN, BENJAMIN A, who is the distinct examiner involved. The concentration of the portfolio is evident as there is only a distinct art unit involved in the current prosecution cycle.
SCHIFFMAN, BENJAMIN A serves as the busiest examiner for the company with 1 pending action. For a practitioner, this indicates a highly focused prosecution effort. With a solitary examiner and art unit, the company faces a very narrow range of examiner perspectives at this time.
This lack of variety in examiner assignments suggests that the company's patenting strategy is currently confined to a specific technical niche. Practitioners can focus their resources on addressing the specific requirements of the assigned examiner without the need to coordinate across multiple art units or different examiner styles.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| SCHIFFMAN, BENJAMIN A | 1 | 65.5% | +27.7% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19105648 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR IMPROVED ULTRASONIC FORMATION | SCHIFFMAN, BENJAMIN A | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1742 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19105648 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR IMPROVED ULTRASONIC FORMATION | SCHIFFMAN, BENJAMIN A | 1742 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 21, 2025 |
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Start Free TrialSoni-Form LLC has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Benjamin A Schiffman has the most, with 1 of Soni-Form LLC's pending office actions.
Mostly Chemistry & Materials (USPTO Tech Center 1700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
