Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
1 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
A Finki & Sons Co. is currently navigating 1 pending office action in the Chemistry & Materials technology area. The data shows that prosecution activity is limited to 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit. This indicates a narrow focus for the company's current patent filings with all active matters localized in one technical area.
The busiest examiner identified is WU, JENNY R, who is assigned 1 busiest examiner pending office action. Since the portfolio only contains 1 distinct examiner, WU, JENNY R is managing the full extent of the company's pending actions. This creates a direct link between the examiner's specific standards and the company's overall prosecution success.
The 1 distinct art unit involved suggests that the technical review is confined to a single specialized group. The 1 pending office action represents the total current administrative burden for the company's portfolio. This focused profile suggests that the company is managing a specific set of claims under the oversight of 1 distinct examiner.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| WU, JENNY R | 1 | 63.6% | +15.9% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17871156 | PRE-HARDENED STEEL COMPOSITION AND MACHINE PARTS MADE THEREWITH | WU, JENNY R | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1733 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17871156 | PRE-HARDENED STEEL COMPOSITION AND MACHINE PARTS MADE THEREWITH | WU, JENNY R | 1733 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 22, 2022 |
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Start Free TrialA Finki & Sons Co. has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Jenny R Wu has the most, with 1 of A Finki & Sons Co.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Chemistry & Materials (USPTO Tech Center 1700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
