Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
1 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Stearns Product Development Corporation has 1 pending office action in Chemistry & Materials. The matter is handled by 1 examiner in 1 art unit.
LEFF, STEVEN N is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending matter. The limited assignment supports a direct response strategy without examiner or art-unit coordination.
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 |
|---|---|
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| LEFF, STEVEN N | 1 | 41.4% | +8.4% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18958404 | GRIDDLE HAVING INTERNAL RESERVOIR FOR LIQUID HEAT TRANSFER MEDIUM | LEFF, STEVEN N | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1792 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18958404 | GRIDDLE HAVING INTERNAL RESERVOIR FOR LIQUID HEAT TRANSFER MEDIUM | LEFF, STEVEN N | 1792 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 25, 2024 |
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Start Free TrialStearns Product Development Corporation has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Steven N Leff has the most, with 1 of Stearns Product Development Corporation's pending office actions.
Mostly Chemistry & Materials (USPTO Tech Center 1700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
