Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
6 pending office actions • 6 art units • 5 examiners • 0 of 6 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 2 patents granted in the last 365 days
Stella Chemifa Corporation has 7 pending office actions in Chemistry & Materials. The matters span 6 distinct examiners and 7 art units, so the docket reaches across a separate art-unit context for each pending action while examiner coverage is slightly more concentrated.
HOBBS, MICHAEL L is the busiest examiner, with 2 pending matters. That concentration is limited within the broader docket, which otherwise involves multiple examiner assignments. Prosecution planning should account for the art-unit spread and preserve matter-specific strategies rather than assuming a single recurring examination pattern.
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 (17%) |
| §102 only | 2 (33%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 3 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| HOBBS, MICHAEL L | 2 | 68.7% | +28.4% |
| NGUYEN, HAIDUNG D | 1 | 64.8% | +28.1% |
| WHITELEY, JESSICA | 1 | 88.6% | +7.1% |
| SMITH, JEREMIAH R | 1 | 58.1% | +24.8% |
| AHMED, SHAMIM | 1 | 78.5% | +22.1% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18709948 | NEUTRON SHIELDING MATERIAL AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING SAME | WHITELEY, JESSICA | — |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19119969 | FLUORIDE PARTICLES DISPERSION | NGUYEN, HAIDUNG D | — |
| 18259250 | CELL CULTURE MEMBER AND METHOD FOR MODIFYING SURFACE THEREOF | HOBBS, MICHAEL L | — |
| 18259237 | CELL CULTURE MEMBER AND METHOD FOR MODIFYING SURFACE THEREOF | HOBBS, MICHAEL L | — |
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 5 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19119969 | FLUORIDE PARTICLES DISPERSION | NGUYEN, HAIDUNG D | — |
| 18705092 | FLAME-RETARDANT NON-AQUEOUS ELECTROLYTIC SOLUTION AND SECONDARY BATTERY USING SAME | SMITH, JEREMIAH R | — |
| 18259250 | CELL CULTURE MEMBER AND METHOD FOR MODIFYING SURFACE THEREOF | HOBBS, MICHAEL L | — |
| 18259237 | CELL CULTURE MEMBER AND METHOD FOR MODIFYING SURFACE THEREOF | HOBBS, MICHAEL L | — |
| 18251334 | MICROMACHINING PROCESSING AGENT AND MICROMACHINING PROCESSING METHOD | AHMED, SHAMIM | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1761 | 1 |
| 1763 | 1 |
| 1723 | 1 |
| 1799 | 1 |
| 1632 | 1 |
| 1713 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19119969 | FLUORIDE PARTICLES DISPERSION | NGUYEN, HAIDUNG D | 1761 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 10, 2025 |
| 18709948 | NEUTRON SHIELDING MATERIAL AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING SAME | WHITELEY, JESSICA | 1763 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 14, 2024 |
| 18705092 | FLAME-RETARDANT NON-AQUEOUS ELECTROLYTIC SOLUTION AND SECONDARY BATTERY USING SAME | SMITH, JEREMIAH R | 1723 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 26, 2024 |
| 18259250 | CELL CULTURE MEMBER AND METHOD FOR MODIFYING SURFACE THEREOF | HOBBS, MICHAEL L | 1799 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jun 23, 2023 |
| 18259237 | CELL CULTURE MEMBER AND METHOD FOR MODIFYING SURFACE THEREOF | HOBBS, MICHAEL L | 1632 | §102§103Other | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jun 23, 2023 |
| 18251334 | MICROMACHINING PROCESSING AGENT AND MICROMACHINING PROCESSING METHOD | AHMED, SHAMIM | 1713 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | May 01, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialStella Chemifa Corporation has 6 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 6 art units and 5 examiners.
Michael L Hobbs has the most, with 2 of Stella Chemifa Corporation's pending office actions.
Mostly Chemistry & Materials (USPTO Tech Center 1700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
