Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
1 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Valgroup S A manages a patent portfolio in the Chemistry & Materials technology area. The company's current prosecution activity is focused on 1 pending office action. This 1 pending office action is being processed within 1 distinct art unit, indicating that the company's current intellectual property efforts are concentrated in 1 specific technical niche within the chemistry and materials sector. This narrow focus suggests a targeted approach to its current patent filings.
The prosecution is handled by 1 distinct examiner, CHORBAJI, MONZER R. As the busiest examiner for the portfolio, CHORBAJI, MONZER R is responsible for 1 pending office action. Because the total number of 1 pending office action is also the workload of this individual, CHORBAJI, MONZER R is the only examiner currently reviewing the company's applications. This creates a centralized prosecution environment where all current feedback and decisions originate from 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit. For the company, this means that the immediate success of its patent filings depends on successfully navigating the requirements of CHORBAJI, MONZER R without any current diversity in the examination process or art unit oversight.
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 |
|---|---|
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| CHORBAJI, MONZER R | 1 | 76.3% | +21.5% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18347118 | CONTINUOUS LIQUEFACTION AND FILTRATION SYSTEM FOR WASTE PLASTIC TREATMENT | CHORBAJI, MONZER R | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18347118 | CONTINUOUS LIQUEFACTION AND FILTRATION SYSTEM FOR WASTE PLASTIC TREATMENT | CHORBAJI, MONZER R | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1799 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18347118 | CONTINUOUS LIQUEFACTION AND FILTRATION SYSTEM FOR WASTE PLASTIC TREATMENT | CHORBAJI, MONZER R | 1799 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 05, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialValgroup S A has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Monzer R Chorbaji has the most, with 1 of Valgroup S A's pending office actions.
Mostly Chemistry & Materials (USPTO Tech Center 1700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
