Technology areas: Chemistry & Materials • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
5 pending office actions • 4 art units • 5 examiners • 0 of 5 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 4 patents granted in the last 365 days
Alfdex AB has 5 pending office actions in Chemistry & Materials. The matters are assigned to 5 examiners across 4 art units, showing a distributed examination profile with limited overlap among examiner assignments.
WANG, YI-KAI is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending matter. Counsel should therefore review the individual actions and compare treatment by art unit rather than rely on a dominant examiner pattern. Consistent chemical terminology and support for claimed compositions or processes may help maintain coherence across the matters.
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) | 5 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| WANG, YI-KAI | 1 | 83.8% | +9.4% |
| TURNER, SONJI | 1 | 73.8% | +20.3% |
| COOLEY, CHARLES E | 1 | 79.0% | +15.3% |
| LIU, SHUYI S | 1 | 73.4% | +25.8% |
| BUI, DUNG H | 1 | 77.8% | +25.5% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 5 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19110635 | CRANKCASE GAS SEPARATOR | WANG, YI-KAI | — |
| 18853328 | A CENTRIFUGAL SEPARATOR COMPRISING A TURBINE CASING | TURNER, SONJI | — |
| 18287413 | A CENTRIFUGAL SEPARATOR COMPRISING A BEARING HOLDER | COOLEY, CHARLES E | — |
| 18038538 | CENTRIFUGAL SEPARATOR | LIU, SHUYI S | — |
| 18036756 | A CENTRIFUGAL SEPARATOR FOR CLEANING GAS | BUI, DUNG H | — |
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 4 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18853328 | A CENTRIFUGAL SEPARATOR COMPRISING A TURBINE CASING | TURNER, SONJI | — |
| 18287413 | A CENTRIFUGAL SEPARATOR COMPRISING A BEARING HOLDER | COOLEY, CHARLES E | — |
| 18038538 | CENTRIFUGAL SEPARATOR | LIU, SHUYI S | — |
| 18036756 | A CENTRIFUGAL SEPARATOR FOR CLEANING GAS | BUI, DUNG H | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1774 | 2 |
| 3747 | 1 |
| 1776 | 1 |
| 1773 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19110635 | CRANKCASE GAS SEPARATOR | WANG, YI-KAI | 3747 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 11, 2025 |
| 18853328 | A CENTRIFUGAL SEPARATOR COMPRISING A TURBINE CASING | TURNER, SONJI | 1776 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 01, 2024 |
| 18287413 | A CENTRIFUGAL SEPARATOR COMPRISING A BEARING HOLDER | COOLEY, CHARLES E | 1774 | §102§103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Oct 18, 2023 |
| 18038538 | CENTRIFUGAL SEPARATOR | LIU, SHUYI S | 1774 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | May 24, 2023 |
| 18036756 | A CENTRIFUGAL SEPARATOR FOR CLEANING GAS | BUI, DUNG H | 1773 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | May 12, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialAlfdex AB has 5 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 4 art units and 5 examiners.
Yi-Kai Wang has the most, with 1 of Alfdex AB's pending office actions.
Mostly Chemistry & Materials (USPTO Tech Center 1700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
