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
EKC Technology Inc. is currently navigating 2 pending office actions within the Chemistry & Materials technology area. The portfolio's activity is distributed across multiple distinct examiners and 2 distinct art units, showing a spread of prosecution efforts. This distribution suggests that the company's intellectual property in Chemistry & Materials is being reviewed by different specialized groups within the patent office.
Tri V Nguyen is identified as the busiest examiner for the company, currently handling 1 pending office action. Although Tri V Nguyen is the most active, this examiner only manages a portion of the pending workload. This indicates that no single official dominates the company's current legal landscape, as the workload is split between multiple examiners.
The presence of 2 distinct art units further confirms that the pending office actions involve different technical sub-specialties. For a practitioner, this means that EKC Technology Inc. must manage diverse examiner perspectives even with a small volume of pending office actions. The reliance on multiple distinct examiners ensures that the portfolio is not overly sensitive to the tendencies of a single individual.
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 | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| NGUYEN, TRI V | 1 | 67.6% | +57.2% |
| 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 1 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 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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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