Technology areas: Chemistry & Materials • Communications
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 2 patents granted in the last 365 days
Spectral Md Inc. currently has 2 pending office actions within the Chemistry & Materials technology area. These actions are being handled by 2 distinct examiners, indicating that each pending application is being reviewed by a different official. The portfolio is also split between 2 distinct art units, which suggests that the company's chemical innovations fall into two separate technical categories. This distribution requires the company to manage two distinct prosecution tracks.
MARCELINO HERNAND, JASMIN is identified as the busiest examiner, with 1 busiest examiner pending action. Given that there are 2 pending office actions in total, the workload is evenly divided between the 2 distinct examiners. This means the company must adapt to two different examination styles and sets of technical requirements. The 1 busiest examiner pending action shows that no single official has a majority share of the company's active cases.
The involvement of 2 distinct art units means the legal strategy must account for the specific practices of two different technical groups. With 2 pending office actions, the company's active workload at the patent office is focused but distributed. Practitioners should be prepared to handle unique feedback from each of the 2 distinct examiners. This profile reflects a targeted approach to securing intellectual property in the chemistry sector.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 1 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 | 1 (50%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (50%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| MARCELINO HERNAND, JASMIN | 1 | — | — |
| WINDSOR, COURTNEY J | 1 | 86.3% | +9.0% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17820837 | MACHINE LEARNING SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ASSESSMENT, HEALING PREDICTION, AND TREATMENT OF WOUNDS | WINDSOR, COURTNEY J | 15d |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18766212 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR TOPOLOGICAL CHARACTERIZATION OF TISSUE | MARCELINO HERNAND, JASMIN | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1774 | 1 |
| 2661 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18766212 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR TOPOLOGICAL CHARACTERIZATION OF TISSUE | MARCELINO HERNAND, JASMIN | 1774 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 08, 2024 |
| 17820837 | MACHINE LEARNING SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ASSESSMENT, HEALING PREDICTION, AND TREATMENT OF WOUNDS | WINDSOR, COURTNEY J | 2661 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 15d | Pending | Aug 18, 2022 |
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Start Free TrialSpectral Md Inc. has 2 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 2 art units and 2 examiners.
Jasmin Marcelino Hernand has the most, with 1 of Spectral Md Inc.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Chemistry & Materials (USPTO Tech Center 1700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
