Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
1 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Trexel, Inc. is currently addressing 1 pending office action in the Chemistry & Materials technology area. The company's patent prosecution is limited to 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit. This indicates a focused engagement with the patent office at this time, with no current diversification across different examination groups. The presence of a single distinct art unit suggests that the underlying technology is being evaluated within a specific regulatory framework at the USPTO. This concentration of effort allows for a deep focus on a particular set of claims without the need to manage multiple examiner relationships.
BEHA, CAROLINE is the busiest examiner for the company, with 1 busiest examiner pending action. Because there is only a single distinct examiner and art unit, the success of the current application depends on the specific requirements of this examiner. The 1 pending office action represents the total current workload for Trexel, Inc. as reflected in the provided data. For the practitioner, this means that the entire prosecution strategy for the company's active matters is focused on a single negotiation with BEHA, CAROLINE. Every response to the pending office action is critical because there are no other active applications to balance the portfolio's progress.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| BEHA, CAROLINE | 1 | 57.6% | +24.0% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 16440370 | BLOWING AGENT INTRODUCTION IN POLYMER FOAM PROCESSING METHODS AND SYSTEMS | BEHA, CAROLINE | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1748 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 16440370 | BLOWING AGENT INTRODUCTION IN POLYMER FOAM PROCESSING METHODS AND SYSTEMS | BEHA, CAROLINE | 1748 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jun 13, 2019 |
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Start Free TrialTrexel, Inc. has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Caroline Beha has the most, with 1 of Trexel, Inc.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Chemistry & Materials (USPTO Tech Center 1700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
