Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 2 patents granted in the last 365 days
Air Company Holdings, Inc. has 2 pending office actions within the Chemistry & Materials technology area. These actions are split between 2 distinct examiners and 2 distinct art units. Ming Cheung Po is the busiest examiner, currently overseeing 1 pending action.
The presence of 2 distinct art units for only 2 pending actions indicates a high degree of technical variety in the portfolio relative to its size. Each matter is being handled by a different examiner, meaning there is no overlap in the current prosecution personnel. The assignment of 2 pending actions to 2 distinct examiners and 2 distinct art units requires the practitioner to manage two entirely separate tracks of communication.
With Ming Cheung Po and the other examiner each holding 1 pending action, the company's immediate results are not concentrated in a single hand. The legal team must address the specific requirements of 2 different art units, which may have varying standards for patentability in the Chemistry & Materials field. This decentralized structure means that progress in one case may not necessarily predict the outcome of the other.
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 |
|---|---|
| §103 only | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| PO, MING CHEUNG | 1 | 37.7% | +13.7% |
| JEONG, YOUNGSUL | 1 | 71.5% | +21.6% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18606313 | METHODS AND CATALYSTS FOR CARBON DIOXIDE CONVERSION TO LONG-CHAIN HYDROCARBONS | JEONG, YOUNGSUL | 33d |
| 18669928 | SYNTHETIC FUELS, AND METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR PRODUCTION THEREOF | PO, MING CHEUNG | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1771 | 1 |
| 1772 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18669928 | SYNTHETIC FUELS, AND METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR PRODUCTION THEREOF | PO, MING CHEUNG | 1771 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | May 21, 2024 |
| 18606313 | METHODS AND CATALYSTS FOR CARBON DIOXIDE CONVERSION TO LONG-CHAIN HYDROCARBONS | JEONG, YOUNGSUL | 1772 | §103 | Final Rejection | 33d | Pending | Mar 15, 2024 |
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