Technology area: Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
1 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Tata Chemicals North America Inc. shows a highly concentrated patent prosecution profile within the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. There is currently 1 pending office action for the entire portfolio. This activity is being processed by 1 distinct examiner and is located within 1 distinct art unit, reflecting a narrow scope of active examination at this time. This concentration suggests that the company is focusing its current intellectual property efforts on a specific technological solution within the transportation or mechanical sectors.
KUMAR, KALYANAVENKA K is the busiest examiner for this company, with 1 busiest examiner pending action. Since the total number of 1 pending office action is limited, this examiner is responsible for the entirety of the company's current interactions with the patent office. This concentration in the art unit and under this examiner suggests that the company's immediate strategy is focused on a specific technological advancement. Successfully managing this pending action will be the primary objective for the company's prosecution team in this technology area.
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 |
|---|---|
| Double-patenting + other | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| DEVINE, MOLLY K | 1 | 67.1% | +32.0% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18605211 | PROCESSING OF TRONA ORES USING SENSOR-BASED ORE SORTING SYSTEMS | DEVINE, MOLLY K | 5d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3653 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18605211 | PROCESSING OF TRONA ORES USING SENSOR-BASED ORE SORTING SYSTEMS | DEVINE, MOLLY K | 3653 | §103§112DP | Non-Final OA | 5d overdue | Pending | Mar 14, 2024 |
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Start Free TrialTata Chemicals North America Inc. has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Molly K Devine has the most, with 1 of Tata Chemicals North America Inc.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems (USPTO Tech Center 3600), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
