Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals • Chemistry & Materials
5 pending office actions • 4 art units • 5 examiners • 0 of 5 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Egtm Co. Ltd. maintains a patent portfolio in the Chemistry & Materials technology area. The company is currently managing 5 pending office actions. These actions are distributed across 5 distinct examiners and 4 distinct art units, indicating a relatively broad prosecution footprint across different administrative and technical groups within the USPTO.
The busiest examiner for the portfolio is WIECZOREK, MICHAEL P, who is assigned 1 busiest examiner pending action. Because there are 5 pending office actions and 5 distinct examiners, the company's active matters are spread across several individuals. This distribution highlights a lack of examiner concentration in the current workload.
The presence of 4 distinct art units for the pending office actions suggests that the company's Chemistry & Materials filings are diverse. This diversity requires the company to adapt its prosecution strategy to the varying standards and practices of multiple art units and examiners simultaneously.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 2 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 | 2 (40%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 1 (20%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (40%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| WIECZOREK, MICHAEL P | 1 | 55.2% | +16.8% |
| AHMED, SHAMIM | 1 | 78.4% | +22.2% |
| DAGENAIS, KRISTEN A | 1 | 63.8% | +20.2% |
| GAMBETTA, KELLY M | 1 | 71.8% | +33.1% |
| HOU, FRANK S | 1 | 68.3% | +34.8% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18518718 | METHOD OF FORMING THIN FILM USING MATERIAL OF CHEMICAL PURGE | DAGENAIS, KRISTEN A | 76d |
| 19036974 | METHOD OF TREATING THIN FILMS AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING MEMORY DEVICE | AHMED, SHAMIM | — |
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 5 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18518718 | METHOD OF FORMING THIN FILM USING MATERIAL OF CHEMICAL PURGE | DAGENAIS, KRISTEN A | 76d |
| 18314842 | METHOD OF DEPOSITING THIN FILM AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING MEMORY DEVICE INCLUDING THE SAME | GAMBETTA, KELLY M | 76d |
| 19048776 | METHOD OF TREATING THIN FILMS AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING MEMORY DEVICE | WIECZOREK, MICHAEL P | — |
| 19036974 | METHOD OF TREATING THIN FILMS AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING MEMORY DEVICE | AHMED, SHAMIM | — |
| 18135413 | Organometallic Compound For Thin Film Deposition And Method For Forming Group 4 Metal-Containing Thin Film Using Same | HOU, FRANK S | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1712 | 1 |
| 1717 | 1 |
| 1718 | 1 |
| 1692 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19048776 | METHOD OF TREATING THIN FILMS AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING MEMORY DEVICE | WIECZOREK, MICHAEL P | 1712 | §102§103§112DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 07, 2025 |
| 19036974 | METHOD OF TREATING THIN FILMS AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING MEMORY DEVICE | AHMED, SHAMIM | — | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 24, 2025 |
| 18518718 | METHOD OF FORMING THIN FILM USING MATERIAL OF CHEMICAL PURGE | DAGENAIS, KRISTEN A | 1717 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | 76d | Pending | Nov 24, 2023 |
| 18314842 | METHOD OF DEPOSITING THIN FILM AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING MEMORY DEVICE INCLUDING THE SAME | GAMBETTA, KELLY M | 1718 | §103 | Final Rejection | 76d | Pending | May 10, 2023 |
| 18135413 | Organometallic Compound For Thin Film Deposition And Method For Forming Group 4 Metal-Containing Thin Film Using Same | HOU, FRANK S | 1692 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 17, 2023 |
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