Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
1 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Sunless Inc. is currently managing 1 pending office action in the Chemistry & Materials technology area. The prosecution landscape for this company involves 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit. This indicates that the company's current intellectual property efforts are concentrated in a single technical and administrative niche.
The busiest examiner for this portfolio is PENCE, JETHRO M, who is currently handling 1 busiest examiner pending office action. Because the portfolio only contains 1 distinct examiner, PENCE, JETHRO M is responsible for the entirety of the company's pending office actions. This concentration allows for a singular focus in prosecution strategy as there are no other examiners to account for.
The 1 distinct art unit involved shows that the technical review is confined to one specific group. The 1 pending office action represents the total active workload for the company's portfolio. This streamlined profile suggests that the company is currently managing a very specific set of patent claims under the oversight of 1 distinct examiner.
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 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| PENCE, JETHRO M | 1 | 79.1% | +25.2% |
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 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17873612 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SPRAY TAN CUSTOMIZATION USING MULTIPART TANNING SOLUTION | PENCE, JETHRO M | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1798 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17873612 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SPRAY TAN CUSTOMIZATION USING MULTIPART TANNING SOLUTION | PENCE, JETHRO M | 1798 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jul 26, 2022 |
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Start Free TrialSunless Inc. has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Jethro M Pence has the most, with 1 of Sunless Inc.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Chemistry & Materials (USPTO Tech Center 1700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
