Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
1 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Vrd LLC is currently engaged in the patent prosecution process within the Chemistry & Materials technology area, where it maintains 1 pending office action. This single action represents the current active portfolio at this time. The prosecution is handled by 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit, which indicates a very focused administrative path for the company's intellectual property. This concentration ensures that the legal strategy is directed toward a specific point of contact.
The busiest examiner for the portfolio is BAREFORD, KATHERINE A, who is responsible for 1 busiest examiner pending office action. Since there is 1 distinct examiner involved, BAREFORD, KATHERINE A manages the total pending workload for the company. The relationship between the examiner and the 1 pending office action means that the outcome of the current efforts in the Chemistry & Materials sector depends on the review of this individual. There is no diversification of examiner perspective across the current portfolio.
With 1 pending office action and 1 distinct art unit, the technical review is confined to a specific departmental niche. Practitioners should focus on the examination history of BAREFORD, KATHERINE A to anticipate the likely trajectory of this case. The presence of 1 distinct examiner for the 1 busiest examiner pending action simplifies the management of the portfolio but places significant importance on the interactions within this single prosecution channel.
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 |
|---|---|
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| BAREFORD, KATHERINE A | 1 | 13.9% | +28.6% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18201418 | Method for Coating Nuclear Power Plant Components | BAREFORD, KATHERINE A | 97d 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 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18201418 | Method for Coating Nuclear Power Plant Components | BAREFORD, KATHERINE A | 97d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1718 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18201418 | Method for Coating Nuclear Power Plant Components | BAREFORD, KATHERINE A | 1718 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 97d overdue | Pending | May 24, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialVrd LLC has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Katherine A Bareford has the most, with 1 of Vrd LLC's pending office actions.
Mostly Chemistry & Materials (USPTO Tech Center 1700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
