Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Taif Joint-Stock Company has 2 pending office actions in Chemistry & Materials. The matters involve 2 distinct examiners and 2 distinct art units, placing each pending matter in a separate examination channel.
STEIN, MICHELLE is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending action. Counsel can use separate response plans for the two matters and preserve matter-specific analysis of the assigned technical areas.
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 |
|---|---|
| §112 only | 1 (50%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 1 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| STEIN, MICHELLE | 1 | 45.3% | +35.5% |
| LING, DORIS | 1 | 25.0% | +27.3% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18618605 | Sintering Aid Composition | LING, DORIS | — |
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 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18618056 | Method For Processing Heavy Petroleum Feedstock | STEIN, MICHELLE | 51d overdue |
| 18618605 | Sintering Aid Composition | LING, DORIS | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1771 | 1 |
| 1764 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18618056 | Method For Processing Heavy Petroleum Feedstock | STEIN, MICHELLE | 1771 | §103DP | Final Rejection | 51d overdue | Pending | Mar 27, 2024 |
| 18618605 | Sintering Aid Composition | LING, DORIS | 1764 | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 27, 2024 |
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Start Free TrialTaif Joint-Stock Company has 2 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 2 art units and 2 examiners.
Michelle Stein has the most, with 1 of Taif Joint-Stock Company's pending office actions.
Mostly Chemistry & Materials (USPTO Tech Center 1700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.