Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
4 pending office actions • 4 art units • 4 examiners • 0 of 4 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 3 patents granted in the last 365 days
EKC Technology Inc. currently manages 3 pending office actions within the Chemistry & Materials technology area. This workload is distributed across 3 distinct examiners and 3 distinct art units, indicating a broad spread of examination oversight for the portfolio. Such a distribution suggests that the company's intellectual property is being evaluated across multiple technical niches rather than being concentrated in a single specialized group.
The busiest examiner for this company is NGUYEN, TRI V, who is responsible for 1 pending office action. Because the total of 3 pending actions is split evenly among 3 distinct examiners, no single official holds a majority of the active cases. This lack of concentration means that the company must navigate three different sets of examiner preferences and procedural styles simultaneously, which can complicate the coordination of a unified prosecution strategy.
For practitioners, the presence of 3 distinct art units for only 3 pending actions highlights a high degree of technical diversity in the current filings. Each action represents a unique point of contact at the patent office, requiring tailored responses that account for the specific tendencies of each examiner. The fact that the busiest examiner only handles 1 pending action further emphasizes that there is no central figure to influence the overall direction of the pending portfolio.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 3 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.
Every pending office action with a known statutory deadline, placed on a days-until-due axis. Dots left of Today are overdue; the further right, the more runway. Cases that share a deadline window stack vertically. 3 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.
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 (50%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| NGUYEN, TRI V | 1 | 67.6% | +57.2% |
| UTECH, BENJAMIN L | 1 | 100.0% | +0.0% |
| JACKSON, MONIQUE R | 1 | 34.8% | +44.3% |
| PENNY, TABATHA L | 1 | 45.7% | +22.8% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18422732 | FORMATION OF ELECTRICALLY CONDUCTIVE LAYERS AT NEAR AMBIENT TEMPERATURE USING SILVER NANOPARTICULATE PROCESSING AND INKS FOR FORMING THE LAYERS | NGUYEN, TRI V | 42d |
| 18387838 | COATINGS AND PROCESSING OF TRANSPARENT CONDUCTIVE FILMS FOR STABILIZATION OF SPARSE METAL CONDUCTIVE LAYERS | UTECH, BENJAMIN L | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18238178 | STABILIZED SPARSE METAL CONDUCTIVE FILMS AND SOLUTIONS FOR DELIVERY OF STABILIZING COMPOUNDS | JACKSON, MONIQUE R | 23d overdue |
| 18422732 | FORMATION OF ELECTRICALLY CONDUCTIVE LAYERS AT NEAR AMBIENT TEMPERATURE USING SILVER NANOPARTICULATE PROCESSING AND INKS FOR FORMING THE LAYERS | NGUYEN, TRI V | 42d |
| 18212297 | FORMATION OF ELECTRICALLY CONDUCTIVE LAYERS AT ROOM TEMPERATURE USING SILVER NANOPARTICULATE PROCESSING AND INKS FOR FORMING THE LAYERS | PENNY, TABATHA L | 63d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1764 | 1 |
| 1700 | 1 |
| 1787 | 1 |
| 1712 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18422732 | FORMATION OF ELECTRICALLY CONDUCTIVE LAYERS AT NEAR AMBIENT TEMPERATURE USING SILVER NANOPARTICULATE PROCESSING AND INKS FOR FORMING THE LAYERS | NGUYEN, TRI V | 1764 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 42d | Pending | Jan 25, 2024 |
| 18387838 | COATINGS AND PROCESSING OF TRANSPARENT CONDUCTIVE FILMS FOR STABILIZATION OF SPARSE METAL CONDUCTIVE LAYERS | UTECH, BENJAMIN L | 1700 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Nov 07, 2023 |
| 18238178 | STABILIZED SPARSE METAL CONDUCTIVE FILMS AND SOLUTIONS FOR DELIVERY OF STABILIZING COMPOUNDS | JACKSON, MONIQUE R | 1787 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 23d overdue | Pending | Aug 25, 2023 |
| 18212297 | FORMATION OF ELECTRICALLY CONDUCTIVE LAYERS AT ROOM TEMPERATURE USING SILVER NANOPARTICULATE PROCESSING AND INKS FOR FORMING THE LAYERS | PENNY, TABATHA L | 1712 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 63d | Pending | Jun 21, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialEKC Technology Inc. has 4 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 4 art units and 4 examiners.
Tri V Nguyen has the most, with 1 of EKC Technology Inc.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Chemistry & Materials (USPTO Tech Center 1700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
