Technology areas: Chemistry & Materials • Communications
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Tristel PLC has 2 pending office actions in Chemistry & Materials. The matters involve 2 examiners and 2 art units, indicating separate technical and procedural examination paths.
CONLEY, SEAN EVERETT is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending matter. Counsel should preserve matter-specific strategies and evaluate each response against its own examiner and unit context.
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 |
|---|---|
| §101 + other | 1 (50%) |
| §102 only | 1 (50%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| CONLEY, SEAN EVERETT | 1 | 70.6% | +11.6% |
| ZHANG, WAYNE | 1 | 59.3% | +43.3% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18005846 | VALIDATION OF PROCEDURES IN A DECONTAMINATION PROCESS | ZHANG, WAYNE | — |
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 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18572004 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PREPARING A LIQUID PREPARATION | CONLEY, SEAN EVERETT | — |
| 18005846 | VALIDATION OF PROCEDURES IN A DECONTAMINATION PROCESS | ZHANG, WAYNE | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1799 | 1 |
| 2672 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18572004 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PREPARING A LIQUID PREPARATION | CONLEY, SEAN EVERETT | 1799 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 19, 2023 |
| 18005846 | VALIDATION OF PROCEDURES IN A DECONTAMINATION PROCESS | ZHANG, WAYNE | 2672 | §101§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 17, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialTristel PLC has 2 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 2 art units and 2 examiners.
Sean Everett Conley has the most, with 1 of Tristel PLC's pending office actions.
Mostly Chemistry & Materials (USPTO Tech Center 1700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
