Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
1 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Tesla Automation GmbH has 1 pending office action in Chemistry & Materials. The profile lists 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit. SHI, TINGCHEN is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending matter. The available record reflects a concentrated examination path for the company’s chemistry and materials subject matter.
Counsel should focus on the examiner’s analysis of the claimed materials, compositions, or processes and respond with technically supported distinctions. Amendments should be grounded in the application and should preserve the intended scope of the automation-related material technology. The single examiner and art-unit assignment make it practical to maintain one coherent argument record through the next prosecution response.
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 | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| SHI, TINGCHEN | 1 | 69.4% | +22.7% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18043577 | MANUFACTURING DEVICE FOR A PHARMACEUTICAL PRODUCT | SHI, TINGCHEN | 12d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1796 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18043577 | MANUFACTURING DEVICE FOR A PHARMACEUTICAL PRODUCT | SHI, TINGCHEN | 1796 | §103 | Final Rejection | 12d | Pending | Feb 28, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialTesla Automation GmbH has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Tingchen Shi has the most, with 1 of Tesla Automation GmbH's pending office actions.
Mostly Chemistry & Materials (USPTO Tech Center 1700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
