Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
1 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Analytical Specialties, Inc. is currently processing 1 pending office action in the Chemistry & Materials technology area. This matter is assigned to a distinct examiner and a distinct art unit. The singular nature of the pending workload suggests a very specific focus for the company's current intellectual property development. This concentration allows the applicant to devote full attention to the requirements of a single examiner. The streamlined nature of the prosecution profile minimizes the risk of conflicting arguments across different applications.
CHUNG, HOSUNG CHARLES acts as the busiest examiner for this portfolio, with 1 busiest examiner pending office action under review. This examiner is the primary authority for the company's active prosecution. Strategy should be tailored to the specific examination patterns of this individual within the Chemistry & Materials sector. The involvement of a distinct art unit indicates a narrow technical scope for the current application. Practitioners should focus on the specific technical nuances that this examiner prioritizes in the field of chemistry.
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 |
|---|---|
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| CHUNG, HOSUNG CHARLES | 1 | 59.1% | +38.3% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17161133 | METHOD AND COMPOSITION FOR METAL FINISHING | CHUNG, HOSUNG CHARLES | 155d overdue |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17161133 | METHOD AND COMPOSITION FOR METAL FINISHING | CHUNG, HOSUNG CHARLES | 155d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1794 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17161133 | METHOD AND COMPOSITION FOR METAL FINISHING | CHUNG, HOSUNG CHARLES | 1794 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | 155d overdue | Pending | Jan 28, 2021 |
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