Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Chemistry & Materials • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 7 patents granted in the last 365 days
Atop S P A currently manages 2 pending office actions within the Chemistry & Materials technology area. This portfolio is distributed across 2 distinct examiners and 2 distinct art units, indicating a focused but divided examination path. The workload is evenly split among the assigned staff, as the busiest examiner, WEN, KEVIN GUANHUA, is responsible for 1 pending action.
The presence of 2 distinct art units suggests that the company's chemistry and materials innovations may span different sub-classifications at the patent office. With 2 pending office actions and 2 distinct examiners, each examiner is handling exactly 1 matter. This ratio of 2 actions to 2 examiners, including the 1 action assigned to WEN, KEVIN GUANHUA, suggests a lack of examiner concentration for the current pending matters. Practitioners should note that the 2 pending office actions are being reviewed by separate individuals, which may lead to different prosecution timelines or outcomes within the Chemistry & Materials sector.
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) | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| WEN, KEVIN GUANHUA | 1 | 60.9% | +38.3% |
| CAZAN, LIVIUS RADU | 1 | 63.0% | +24.8% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18019760 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING COIL MEMBERS FOR INSERTION INTO SLOTS OF THE CORE OF A DYNAMO-ELECTRIC MACHINE | CAZAN, LIVIUS RADU | 38d overdue |
| 18992295 | PROCESS FOR THE PROTECTION OF MECHANICAL ELEMENTS OF WELDING ASSEMBLIES AGAINST WELD RESIDUES AND SPATTER AND COATED MECHANICAL ELEMENT OF WELDING ASSEMBLIES | WEN, KEVIN GUANHUA | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18019760 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING COIL MEMBERS FOR INSERTION INTO SLOTS OF THE CORE OF A DYNAMO-ELECTRIC MACHINE | CAZAN, LIVIUS RADU | 38d overdue |
| 18992295 | PROCESS FOR THE PROTECTION OF MECHANICAL ELEMENTS OF WELDING ASSEMBLIES AGAINST WELD RESIDUES AND SPATTER AND COATED MECHANICAL ELEMENT OF WELDING ASSEMBLIES | WEN, KEVIN GUANHUA | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1718 | 1 |
| 3729 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18992295 | PROCESS FOR THE PROTECTION OF MECHANICAL ELEMENTS OF WELDING ASSEMBLIES AGAINST WELD RESIDUES AND SPATTER AND COATED MECHANICAL ELEMENT OF WELDING ASSEMBLIES | WEN, KEVIN GUANHUA | 1718 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 08, 2025 |
| 18019760 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING COIL MEMBERS FOR INSERTION INTO SLOTS OF THE CORE OF A DYNAMO-ELECTRIC MACHINE | CAZAN, LIVIUS RADU | 3729 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 38d overdue | Pending | Feb 03, 2023 |
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