Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 3 patents granted in the last 365 days
Diality Inc. has 2 pending office actions within the Chemistry & Materials technology area. These actions are spread across 2 distinct art units, suggesting a broader technical scope for the company's current filings. The portfolio also involves 2 distinct examiners, matching the number of active matters. This distribution means that the company is simultaneously navigating the procedural requirements of 2 different departments at the patent office.
KIM, SUN U is the busiest examiner, currently handling 1 pending office action. This accounts for a portion of the 2 pending office actions in the portfolio. Because there are 2 distinct art units involved, practitioners must navigate different procedural environments for each of the 2 pending actions. The involvement of 2 distinct examiners further emphasizes the need for a versatile prosecution strategy that can adapt to different individual and departmental expectations.
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 | 1 (50%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| KIM, SUN U | 1 | 78.2% | +11.5% |
| PEO, JONATHAN M | 1 | 48.2% | +48.1% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17827578 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR CONTROLLING DIALYSATE SALT CONCENTRATION | PEO, JONATHAN M | 16d |
| 18650469 | DISPOSABLE CARTRIDGE AND PUMP TRACK MECHANISM | KIM, SUN U | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1777 | 1 |
| 1779 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18650469 | DISPOSABLE CARTRIDGE AND PUMP TRACK MECHANISM | KIM, SUN U | 1777 | §103§112DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 30, 2024 |
| 17827578 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR CONTROLLING DIALYSATE SALT CONCENTRATION | PEO, JONATHAN M | 1779 | §103 | Final Rejection | 16d | Pending | May 27, 2022 |
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