Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
2 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 8 patents granted in the last 365 days
Suncoal Industries GmbH has 2 pending office actions in Chemistry & Materials. Both matters are assigned to 1 examiner and 1 art unit, indicating a common examination setting.
FISCHER, JUSTIN R is the busiest examiner, with 2 pending matters. Counsel can pursue a coordinated strategy across the matters, including consistent claim language and aligned responses to examination issues.
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 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FISCHER, JUSTIN R | 2 | 44.2% | +2.5% |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1749 | 2 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18848318 | RUBBER COMPOSITION FOR AN INNER LINER FOR PNEUMATIC VEHICLE TIRES | FISCHER, JUSTIN R | 1749 | §103 | Final Rejection | 8d overdue | Pending | Sep 18, 2024 |
| 18561795 | SURFACE-MODIFIED ORGANIC FILLERS AND RUBBER COMPOSITIONS CONTAINING SAME | FISCHER, JUSTIN R | 1749 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 17, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialSuncoal Industries GmbH has 2 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Justin R Fischer has the most, with 2 of Suncoal Industries GmbH's pending office actions.
Mostly Chemistry & Materials (USPTO Tech Center 1700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
