Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
2 pending office actions • 1 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Starfire Industries LLC currently maintains 1 pending office action in the Chemistry & Materials technology area. This active matter is distributed to 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit, showing a focused prosecution landscape for the company's current filings. The presence of 1 pending office action indicates a limited but specific engagement with the patent office at this time. By operating within 1 distinct art unit, the company can ensure that its technical arguments are reviewed by a consistent group of experts in the chemistry field. This concentration allows for a highly specialized prosecution strategy that addresses the specific requirements of the assigned unit.
The busiest examiner for the portfolio is BAND, MICHAEL A, who is responsible for 1 pending office action. This individual workload accounts for the entirety of the company's pending actions, as the busiest examiner pending count is 1. Practitioners should tailor their approach to the specific examiner's patterns to advance the prosecution of this Chemistry & Materials case. Because there is only 1 distinct examiner involved, the prosecution strategy does not need to account for varying examiner behaviors. Instead, the focus should be on providing the specific evidence and arguments that this one examiner requires to resolve the pending office action.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| MCDONALD, RODNEY GLENN | 1 | 63.7% | +24.3% |
| BAND, MICHAEL A | 1 | 45.1% | +55.7% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19033192 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR METAL AND CERAMIC NANOLAYERING FOR ACCIDENT TOLERANT NUCLEAR FUEL, PARTICLE ACCELERATORS, AND AEROSPACE LEADING EDGES | MCDONALD, RODNEY GLENN | 26d overdue |
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 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19033192 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR METAL AND CERAMIC NANOLAYERING FOR ACCIDENT TOLERANT NUCLEAR FUEL, PARTICLE ACCELERATORS, AND AEROSPACE LEADING EDGES | MCDONALD, RODNEY GLENN | 26d overdue |
| 17580585 | BELLOWS COATING BY MAGNETRON SPUTTERING WITH KICK PULSE | BAND, MICHAEL A | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1794 | 2 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19033192 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR METAL AND CERAMIC NANOLAYERING FOR ACCIDENT TOLERANT NUCLEAR FUEL, PARTICLE ACCELERATORS, AND AEROSPACE LEADING EDGES | MCDONALD, RODNEY GLENN | 1794 | §103§112Other | Final Rejection | 26d overdue | Pending | Jan 21, 2025 |
| 17580585 | BELLOWS COATING BY MAGNETRON SPUTTERING WITH KICK PULSE | BAND, MICHAEL A | 1794 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 20, 2022 |
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Start Free TrialStarfire Industries LLC has 2 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 2 examiners.
Rodney Glenn Mcdonald has the most, with 1 of Starfire Industries LLC's pending office actions.
Mostly Chemistry & Materials (USPTO Tech Center 1700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
