Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
6 pending office actions • 4 art units • 6 examiners • 0 of 6 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 6 patents granted in the last 365 days
Twelve Benefit Corporation has 6 pending office actions in Chemistry & Materials. The matters involve 6 distinct examiners and 4 distinct art units, combining broad examiner dispersion with some concentration at the art-unit level.
WONG, EDNA is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending office action. Counsel should coordinate claim strategy across the portfolio while allowing responses to reflect the different examiner assignments and shared art-unit settings.
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 | 4 (67%) |
| §102 only | 1 (17%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (17%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| WONG, EDNA | 1 | 58.4% | -19.7% |
| COHEN, BRIAN W | 1 | 54.8% | +47.8% |
| CONTRERAS, CIEL P | 1 | 54.3% | +33.6% |
| SLIFKA, SARAH A | 1 | 75.5% | +11.3% |
| PULLEN, NIKOLAS TAKUYA | 1 | 52.5% | +8.4% |
| MENDEZ, ZULMARIAM | 1 | 66.1% | +21.3% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18900442 | ELECTROCHEMICAL COX REDUCTION AND HYDROGEN OXIDATION REACTOR | WONG, EDNA | 70d overdue |
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 4 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18736188 | ELECTROLYZER AND METHOD OF USE | COHEN, BRIAN W | — |
| 18679249 | POROUS TRANSPORT LAYER FOR CARBON DIOXIDE ELECTROLYZERS | CONTRERAS, CIEL P | — |
| 18241019 | FUNCTIONALIZED IONIC POLYMERS AND USES THEREOF | SLIFKA, SARAH A | — |
| 18052845 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CARBON DIOXIDE REACTOR CONTROL | MENDEZ, ZULMARIAM | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1759 | 2 |
| 1794 | 2 |
| 1795 | 1 |
| 1733 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18900442 | ELECTROCHEMICAL COX REDUCTION AND HYDROGEN OXIDATION REACTOR | WONG, EDNA | 1795 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 70d overdue | Pending | Sep 27, 2024 |
| 18736188 | ELECTROLYZER AND METHOD OF USE | COHEN, BRIAN W | 1759 | §103Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 06, 2024 |
| 18679249 | POROUS TRANSPORT LAYER FOR CARBON DIOXIDE ELECTROLYZERS | CONTRERAS, CIEL P | 1794 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | May 30, 2024 |
| 18241019 | FUNCTIONALIZED IONIC POLYMERS AND USES THEREOF | SLIFKA, SARAH A | 1759 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 31, 2023 |
| 18062459 | INTEGRATED SYSTEMS EMPLOYING CARBON OXIDE ELECTROLYSIS IN STEEL PRODUCTION | PULLEN, NIKOLAS TAKUYA | 1733 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Dec 06, 2022 |
| 18052845 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CARBON DIOXIDE REACTOR CONTROL | MENDEZ, ZULMARIAM | 1794 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 04, 2022 |
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Start Free TrialTwelve Benefit Corporation has 6 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 4 art units and 6 examiners.
Edna Wong has the most, with 1 of Twelve Benefit Corporation's pending office actions.
Mostly Chemistry & Materials (USPTO Tech Center 1700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
