Technology areas: Chemistry & Materials • Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics
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
BYD Company Ltd. has 2 pending office actions in the Chemistry & Materials technology area. These cases are being handled by 2 distinct examiners across 2 distinct art units. This distribution indicates that each pending application is being reviewed in a separate administrative and technical environment within the patent office. Practitioners must adapt their prosecution strategies to the specific guidelines of these 2 distinct art units.
KANG, TAE-SIK is the busiest examiner for the company, with 1 pending office action. With the workload split between 2 distinct examiners, the company's prosecution is not centralized under a single examiner. The involvement of 2 distinct art units suggests that the applications involve different chemical or material classifications. Practitioners should focus on the individual styles of the assigned examiners while addressing the technical standards of each unit. This decentralized structure requires a customized approach for the 2 pending office actions to ensure successful resolution.
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 | 1 (50%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (50%) |
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% |
| KING, GEORGE G | 1 | 57.9% | +37.7% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18899380 | TEXTURE STRUCTURE, COVER PLATE, MOBILE TERMINAL, AND PREPARATION METHOD FOR COVER PLATE | KING, GEORGE G | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19247156 | PRE-TEXTURED SILICON WAFER AND PREPARATION METHOD THEREOF, TEXTURED WAFER, AND SOLAR CELL | KANG, TAE-SIK | — |
| 18899380 | TEXTURE STRUCTURE, COVER PLATE, MOBILE TERMINAL, AND PREPARATION METHOD FOR COVER PLATE | KING, GEORGE G | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1728 | 1 |
| 2872 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19247156 | PRE-TEXTURED SILICON WAFER AND PREPARATION METHOD THEREOF, TEXTURED WAFER, AND SOLAR CELL | KANG, TAE-SIK | 1728 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 24, 2025 |
| 18899380 | TEXTURE STRUCTURE, COVER PLATE, MOBILE TERMINAL, AND PREPARATION METHOD FOR COVER PLATE | KING, GEORGE G | 2872 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 27, 2024 |
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Start Free TrialBYD Company Ltd. has 2 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 2 art units and 2 examiners.
Tae-Sik Kang has the most, with 1 of BYD Company Ltd.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Chemistry & Materials (USPTO Tech Center 1700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
