Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
1 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
U S Department Of Agriculture currently has 1 pending office action in the Chemistry & Materials technology area. This matter is being examined within 1 distinct art unit, indicating a specific focus for the department's current patent activity. The prosecution involves 1 distinct examiner, which simplifies the communication process for this active case by providing a point of contact at the patent office.
The busiest examiner is VERA, ELISA H, who is responsible for the 1 busiest examiner pending action. Since there is only 1 pending office action, this examiner holds the active workload. This alignment between pending actions and examiners ensures that the prosecution strategy remains focused on a set of examiner requirements without the need to coordinate across different departments.
Navigating a portfolio with only 1 pending office action allows for a concentrated effort on the specific technical requirements of the 1 distinct art unit involved. Practitioners can dedicate their resources to addressing the feedback from VERA, ELISA H, ensuring that the active matter in the Chemistry & Materials sector receives attention during the examination process.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| VERA, ELISA H | 1 | 72.4% | +26.3% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19088051 | CONTINUOUS PROCESSING OF CELLULOSE NANOFIBRIL SHEETS THROUGH CONVENTIONAL EXTRUSION | VERA, ELISA H | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1748 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19088051 | CONTINUOUS PROCESSING OF CELLULOSE NANOFIBRIL SHEETS THROUGH CONVENTIONAL EXTRUSION | VERA, ELISA H | 1748 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 24, 2025 |
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Start Free TrialU S Department Of Agriculture has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Elisa H Vera has the most, with 1 of U S Department Of Agriculture's pending office actions.
Mostly Chemistry & Materials (USPTO Tech Center 1700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
