Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
1 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
X Cell LLC operates in the Chemistry & Materials technology area with 1 pending office action currently on record. This action is assigned to 1 distinct examiner and is situated within 1 distinct art unit. This reflects a highly concentrated prosecution stage where all active matters are localized under a single administrative and technical review point. Practitioners should note that this concentration allows for a very direct engagement with the patent office.
The busiest examiner for X Cell LLC is THROWER, LARRY W, who is responsible for the 1 pending office action. In the Chemistry & Materials sector, having a single examiner and a single art unit involved means that the company's immediate patent prospects depend entirely on this one individual's assessment. There are no other pending actions to diversify the portfolio's risk at this time.
Practitioners should focus their efforts on the specific requirements of THROWER, LARRY W, as there are no other examiners or art units currently influencing the portfolio. The presence of only 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit simplifies the prosecution landscape, allowing for a very specific response strategy. Success for the 1 pending action will be determined by how well the company navigates this single examiner's feedback within the 1 distinct art unit.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| THROWER, LARRY W | 1 | 65.9% | +12.6% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18720914 | APPARATUS AND METHOD TO PROVIDE A PATHOGENICIDAL BARRIER BETWEEN FIRST AND SECOND REGIONS | THROWER, LARRY W | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18720914 | APPARATUS AND METHOD TO PROVIDE A PATHOGENICIDAL BARRIER BETWEEN FIRST AND SECOND REGIONS | THROWER, LARRY W | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1754 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18720914 | APPARATUS AND METHOD TO PROVIDE A PATHOGENICIDAL BARRIER BETWEEN FIRST AND SECOND REGIONS | THROWER, LARRY W | 1754 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 17, 2024 |
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Start Free TrialX Cell LLC has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Larry W Thrower has the most, with 1 of X Cell LLC's pending office actions.
Mostly Chemistry & Materials (USPTO Tech Center 1700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
