Technology areas: Chemistry & Materials • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
3 pending office actions • 3 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Spp Technologies Co. Ltd. has 3 pending office actions in Chemistry & Materials. The matters are distributed among 3 distinct examiners and 3 distinct art units, showing separate examination paths within the portfolio. This allocation increases the importance of tracking deadlines, claim amendments, and technical positions by individual assignment.
DUCLAIR, STEPHANIE P. is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending matter. The busiest-examiner figure is below the portfolio total, so the identified activity is spread across the other examiner assignments. Counsel can coordinate overarching materials strategy while preserving examiner-specific arguments and art-unit analysis for each response.
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 | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| DUCLAIR, STEPHANIE P. | 1 | 72.3% | +19.6% |
| MOORE, KARLA A | 1 | 43.1% | +13.6% |
| GATES, ERIC ANDREW | 1 | 78.8% | +14.6% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17429643 | METHOD OF IGNITING PLASMA AND PLASMA GENERATING SYSTEM | MOORE, KARLA A | — |
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 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17923931 | PLASMA PROCESSING METHOD USING A MIXED PLASMA PROCESSING GAS OF C4F8 AND 2,3,3,3- TETRAFLUOROPROPENE | DUCLAIR, STEPHANIE P. | 12d |
| 17429643 | METHOD OF IGNITING PLASMA AND PLASMA GENERATING SYSTEM | MOORE, KARLA A | — |
| 17251859 | ABNORMALITY DETECTION APPARATUS | GATES, ERIC ANDREW | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1713 | 1 |
| 1716 | 1 |
| 3722 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17923931 | PLASMA PROCESSING METHOD USING A MIXED PLASMA PROCESSING GAS OF C4F8 AND 2,3,3,3- TETRAFLUOROPROPENE | DUCLAIR, STEPHANIE P. | 1713 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 12d | Pending | Nov 08, 2022 |
| 17429643 | METHOD OF IGNITING PLASMA AND PLASMA GENERATING SYSTEM | MOORE, KARLA A | 1716 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Aug 10, 2021 |
| 17251859 | ABNORMALITY DETECTION APPARATUS | GATES, ERIC ANDREW | 3722 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 14, 2020 |
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Start Free TrialSpp Technologies Co. Ltd. has 3 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 3 art units and 3 examiners.
Stephanie P. Duclair has the most, with 1 of Spp Technologies Co. Ltd.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Chemistry & Materials (USPTO Tech Center 1700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
