Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
3 pending office actions • 3 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Xampla Limited has 3 pending office actions in Chemistry & Materials. The matters are assigned to 3 distinct examiners and 3 distinct art units, indicating separate examination settings. Counsel should maintain consistent positions on material composition, structure, and processing, while tailoring each response to the examiner and art-unit record.
MRUK, BRIAN P is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending matter. No examiner has a concentrated share of the docket, so coordinated issue tracking is more useful than dependence on one examiner relationship. Claim amendments should remain tied to disclosed material characteristics and should address the particular ground raised in each application.
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 (33%) |
| §112 only | 1 (33%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (33%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| MRUK, BRIAN P | 1 | 74.2% | +28.1% |
| MORNHINWEG, JEFFREY P | 1 | 36.7% | +32.2% |
| XU, JIANGTIAN | 1 | 64.9% | +35.5% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18025441 | PROTEIN DISPERSIONS | XU, JIANGTIAN | — |
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 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18844862 | BIODEGRADABLE MICROCAPSULES AND A METHOD FOR THEIR PREPARATION | MRUK, BRIAN P | — |
| 18704514 | PLANT PROTEIN-STARCH FILMS | MORNHINWEG, JEFFREY P | — |
| 18025441 | PROTEIN DISPERSIONS | XU, JIANGTIAN | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1761 | 1 |
| 1792 | 1 |
| 1762 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18844862 | BIODEGRADABLE MICROCAPSULES AND A METHOD FOR THEIR PREPARATION | MRUK, BRIAN P | 1761 | §112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Sep 06, 2024 |
| 18704514 | PLANT PROTEIN-STARCH FILMS | MORNHINWEG, JEFFREY P | 1792 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 25, 2024 |
| 18025441 | PROTEIN DISPERSIONS | XU, JIANGTIAN | 1762 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 09, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialXampla Limited has 3 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 3 art units and 3 examiners.
Brian P Mruk has the most, with 1 of Xampla Limited's pending office actions.
Mostly Chemistry & Materials (USPTO Tech Center 1700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
