Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
1 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Vanguard Soap LLC operates a patent portfolio focused on the Chemistry & Materials technology area. The portfolio currently has 1 pending office action. This 1 action is being reviewed within 1 distinct art unit, showing a specific technical focus for the company's current intellectual property efforts. Prosecution is managed by 1 distinct examiner.
The busiest examiner assigned to the portfolio is Necholus Ogden Jr. This individual is responsible for 1 busiest examiner pending action. This 1 busiest examiner pending action constitutes the entire pending workload for the company at the patent office. The alignment of 1 pending office action, 1 distinct examiner, and 1 distinct art unit suggests a concentrated prosecution path.
Practitioners can focus their strategy on the specific requirements of the Chemistry & Materials area as interpreted by this 1 distinct examiner. With only 1 pending matter, the current administrative burden is low. The data reflects a concentrated approach to securing patent rights in this technical domain.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| OGDEN JR, NECHOLUS | 1 | 69.7% | +23.7% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18627077 | HIGH BUTTERS CONTENT SOAP AND METHODS | OGDEN JR, NECHOLUS | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1761 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18627077 | HIGH BUTTERS CONTENT SOAP AND METHODS | OGDEN JR, NECHOLUS | 1761 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Apr 04, 2024 |
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Start Free TrialVanguard Soap LLC has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Necholus Ogden Jr. has the most, with 1 of Vanguard Soap LLC's pending office actions.
Mostly Chemistry & Materials (USPTO Tech Center 1700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
