Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
White Rhino U S A LLC is active in the Chemistry & Materials technology area, currently overseeing 2 pending office actions. These actions are assigned to 2 distinct examiners, which shows that the portfolio's pending matters are being reviewed by different officials. Additionally, the applications are located in 2 distinct art units, suggesting that the company's technology covers multiple technical classifications within the USPTO. This distribution requires the applicant to manage two separate examination processes simultaneously.
The busiest examiner for the portfolio is KESSIE, JENNIFER A, who is handling 1 busiest examiner pending office action. Given that there are 2 pending office actions total, the workload is shared between the 2 distinct examiners. This balance ensures that the portfolio's advancement is not solely dependent on one examiner's interpretation or schedule. However, the presence of 2 distinct art units means that the prosecution must be adapted to the specific procedural and technical standards of each group.
The 2 pending office actions in the Chemistry & Materials sector indicate an ongoing effort to secure patent rights for the company's innovations. Because the examiners are working in separate art units, the legal team is likely to encounter different sets of prior art and examination styles. Navigating these separate paths successfully requires a consistent legal strategy that remains flexible enough to address the unique focus of each unit.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 2 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) | 2 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| KESSIE, JENNIFER A | 1 | 65.2% | +20.2% |
| SPARKS, RUSSELL E | 1 | 64.1% | +14.0% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18165016 | AIRFLOW CONTROL DEVICES AND RELATED METHODS | SPARKS, RUSSELL E | 15d overdue |
| 18165036 | ADJUSTABLE DEVICE | KESSIE, JENNIFER A | 12d |
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 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18165016 | AIRFLOW CONTROL DEVICES AND RELATED METHODS | SPARKS, RUSSELL E | 15d overdue |
| 18165036 | ADJUSTABLE DEVICE | KESSIE, JENNIFER A | 12d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1747 | 1 |
| 1755 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18165036 | ADJUSTABLE DEVICE | KESSIE, JENNIFER A | 1747 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | 12d | Pending | Feb 06, 2023 |
| 18165016 | AIRFLOW CONTROL DEVICES AND RELATED METHODS | SPARKS, RUSSELL E | 1755 | §102§112 | Non-Final OA | 15d overdue | Pending | Feb 06, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialWhite Rhino U S A LLC has 2 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 2 art units and 2 examiners.
Jennifer A Kessie has the most, with 1 of White Rhino U S A LLC's pending office actions.
Mostly Chemistry & Materials (USPTO Tech Center 1700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
