Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
1 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Specialty Granules Investments LLC is active in the Chemistry & Materials technology area with 1 pending office action. This 1 action constitutes the company's current workload at the patent office. The prosecution is limited to 1 distinct art unit, indicating that the pending application falls within a specific technical category. This focused activity suggests a targeted approach to expanding the company's patent portfolio in this field. The 1 distinct art unit provides a concentrated environment for the examination of the 1 pending office action.
The portfolio's active matters are managed by 1 distinct examiner, HOANG, THINH GIA. This individual is the busiest examiner for the company, currently overseeing 1 pending office action. Because 1 pending action is assigned to this 1 examiner, the company's immediate prosecution results are tied to the specific feedback provided by this examiner within the 1 designated art unit. The company's legal strategy must account for the individual examination preferences of this 1 official. The presence of 1 distinct examiner simplifies the communication process for the current 1 pending office action.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| HOANG, THINH GIA | 1 | — | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1793 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18498837 | ORGANO-MINERAL SOIL AMENDMENT USING ROCK FINES | HOANG, THINH GIA | 1793 | §103DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 31, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialSpecialty Granules Investments LLC has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Thinh Gia Hoang has the most, with 1 of Specialty Granules Investments LLC's pending office actions.
Mostly Chemistry & Materials (USPTO Tech Center 1700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
