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
Tocalo Co. Ltd. currently manages 1 pending office action within the Chemistry & Materials technology area. This action is assigned to 1 distinct examiner, EMPIE, NATHAN H, indicating a concentrated prosecution focus at this stage. The presence of only 1 distinct art unit suggests that the company's current patent activity is localized within a specific technical niche. Practitioners should note that such a narrow distribution limits the variety of examiner perspectives encountered across the portfolio.
The busiest examiner, EMPIE, NATHAN H, is responsible for 1 pending office action, which represents the entirety of the company's pending workload. For a practitioner, this means that the outcome of the portfolio's current examination phase rests with a single individual. The alignment between the 1 distinct examiner and the previously mentioned art unit confirms a streamlined interaction with the patent office. This concentration allows for a specific prosecution strategy but increases the impact of an individual examiner's tendencies on the overall portfolio status.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| EMPIE, NATHAN H | 1 | 43.4% | +43.3% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18706873 | SURFACE TREATMENT METHOD FOR CERAMIC THERMAL SPRAY COATING, AND CERAMIC THERMAL SPRAY COATING | EMPIE, NATHAN H | 46d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1712 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18706873 | SURFACE TREATMENT METHOD FOR CERAMIC THERMAL SPRAY COATING, AND CERAMIC THERMAL SPRAY COATING | EMPIE, NATHAN H | 1712 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 46d overdue | Pending | May 02, 2024 |
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Start Free TrialTocalo Co. Ltd. has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Nathan H Empie has the most, with 1 of Tocalo Co. Ltd.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Chemistry & Materials (USPTO Tech Center 1700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
