Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
3 pending office actions • 3 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Sterile State Inc. has 2 pending office actions in Chemistry & Materials. The matters are assigned to 2 examiners and 2 art units, showing separate examination channels within the same technical area. Counsel should coordinate the chemical and materials terminology across the portfolio while responding independently to the two examination records.
CHEN, CHANGRU is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending matter. The other action is assigned to a different examiner and art unit. This distribution makes a common disclosure review useful, but the cited art, claim construction, and amendment choices should be evaluated separately for each matter.
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 |
|---|---|
| §102 only | 1 (33%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (67%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| CHEN, CHANGRU | 1 | 48.6% | +40.7% |
| TAI, XIUYU | 1 | 58.6% | +49.5% |
| EOM, ROBERT J | 1 | 57.4% | +34.9% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18693129 | COMPOSITION AND COMPOSITE ARTICLE FOR FORMING NITRIC OXIDE | CHEN, CHANGRU | — |
| 18272533 | Devices and Methods for Providing Nitric Oxide | TAI, XIUYU | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18693129 | COMPOSITION AND COMPOSITE ARTICLE FOR FORMING NITRIC OXIDE | CHEN, CHANGRU | — |
| 18272533 | Devices and Methods for Providing Nitric Oxide | TAI, XIUYU | — |
| 18272541 | Devices and Methods for Detecting the Presence of Nitric Oxide | EOM, ROBERT J | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1796 | 1 |
| 1795 | 1 |
| 1797 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18693129 | COMPOSITION AND COMPOSITE ARTICLE FOR FORMING NITRIC OXIDE | CHEN, CHANGRU | 1796 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 18, 2024 |
| 18272533 | Devices and Methods for Providing Nitric Oxide | TAI, XIUYU | 1795 | §102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 14, 2023 |
| 18272541 | Devices and Methods for Detecting the Presence of Nitric Oxide | EOM, ROBERT J | 1797 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 14, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialSterile State Inc. has 3 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 3 art units and 3 examiners.
Changru Chen has the most, with 1 of Sterile State Inc.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Chemistry & Materials (USPTO Tech Center 1700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
