Technology areas: Chemistry & Materials • Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
4 pending office actions • 4 art units • 4 examiners • 0 of 4 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 12 patents granted in the last 365 days
Array Tech Inc. has 4 pending office actions in Chemistry & Materials. Each matter is assigned to a distinct examiner and a distinct art unit, indicating separate prosecution paths without concentration in the supplied data.
KANG, TAE-SIK is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending matter. Counsel should manage each response independently while preserving consistent technical positions across the small portfolio.
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 | 3 (75%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (25%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| KANG, TAE-SIK | 1 | 58.5% | +27.7% |
| MCDUFFIE, MICHAEL D | 1 | 67.7% | -10.5% |
| SKROUPA, JOSHUA A | 1 | 80.3% | +15.2% |
| CANNON, RYAN SMITH | 1 | 55.8% | +36.9% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19176731 | TORQUE TUBE COUPLER | SKROUPA, JOSHUA A | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18794772 | A SYSTEM FOR SECURING A TORQUE TUBE TO A MOUNTING RAIL | CANNON, RYAN SMITH | 76d |
| 19406216 | COUNTERBALANCE ASSEMBLIES IN PHOTOVOLTAIC SOLAR TRACKERS | KANG, TAE-SIK | — |
| 19176731 | TORQUE TUBE COUPLER | SKROUPA, JOSHUA A | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1728 | 1 |
| 3632 | 1 |
| 3678 | 1 |
| 1726 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19406216 | COUNTERBALANCE ASSEMBLIES IN PHOTOVOLTAIC SOLAR TRACKERS | KANG, TAE-SIK | 1728 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Dec 02, 2025 |
| 19374657 | COUNTERBALANCE ASSEMBLIES IN PHOTOVOLTAIC SOLAR TRACKERS | MCDUFFIE, MICHAEL D | 3632 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Oct 30, 2025 |
| 19176731 | TORQUE TUBE COUPLER | SKROUPA, JOSHUA A | 3678 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 11, 2025 |
| 18794772 | A SYSTEM FOR SECURING A TORQUE TUBE TO A MOUNTING RAIL | CANNON, RYAN SMITH | 1726 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 76d | Pending | Aug 05, 2024 |
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Start Free TrialArray Tech Inc. has 4 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 4 art units and 4 examiners.
Tae-Sik Kang has the most, with 1 of Array Tech Inc.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Chemistry & Materials (USPTO Tech Center 1700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
