Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
1 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
The Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station currently has 1 pending office action in the Chemistry & Materials technology area. This action is under the review of 1 distinct examiner, BAUM, ZACHARY JOHN, who is the busiest examiner with 1 busiest examiner pending action. The portfolio is active in 1 distinct art unit, reflecting a concentrated focus on agricultural chemistry.
Because the station only has 1 pending office action, its current prosecution experience is entirely defined by the interaction with BAUM, ZACHARY JOHN. This allows the applicant to focus resources on a single set of examiner preferences and art unit trends within the Chemistry & Materials field. The 1 distinct examiner involved represents the only point of contact for the station's current active matters.
The presence of 1 distinct art unit indicates that the technology is being evaluated within a specific division of the patent office. With 1 busiest examiner pending action, the station's immediate success is tied to the resolution of this single matter. This streamlined prosecution environment allows for a highly targeted legal strategy but lacks the broader insights that come from interacting with multiple examiners.
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 |
|---|---|
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| BAUM, ZACHARY JOHN | 1 | 81.2% | +15.2% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18430265 | Carbon-based nanoparticles for PFAS remediation | BAUM, ZACHARY JOHN | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18430265 | Carbon-based nanoparticles for PFAS remediation | BAUM, ZACHARY JOHN | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1736 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18430265 | Carbon-based nanoparticles for PFAS remediation | BAUM, ZACHARY JOHN | 1736 | §102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 01, 2024 |
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Start Free TrialThe Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Zachary John Baum has the most, with 1 of The Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station's pending office actions.
Mostly Chemistry & Materials (USPTO Tech Center 1700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
