Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
3 pending office actions • 3 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 2 patents granted in the last 365 days
Entek Asia Inc. holds a patent portfolio in the Chemistry & Materials technology area. The company currently faces 3 pending office actions, which are distributed across 3 distinct art units. This suggests that the company's patent applications cover a range of technical subjects that fall under the jurisdiction of different specialized groups at the patent office. The diversity of 3 distinct art units indicates a multifaceted approach to their chemistry and materials intellectual property.
The prosecution involves 3 distinct examiners, ensuring that each pending matter is being reviewed by a different individual. CLARY, KAYLA ELAINE is the busiest examiner for the portfolio, with 1 pending office action under her review. Given that there are 3 pending office actions and 3 distinct examiners, the workload is spread across multiple individuals. This lack of concentration means that practitioners must manage 3 separate examiner relationships and 3 different art unit environments. No individual examiner dominates the current prosecution landscape for Entek Asia Inc., requiring a strategy that accounts for the varied feedback of CLARY, KAYLA ELAINE and the other assigned examiners.
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 |
|---|---|
| Double-patenting + other | 1 (33%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (67%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| CLARY, KAYLA ELAINE | 1 | 66.7% | +25.0% |
| BOYD, JENNIFER A | 1 | 32.3% | +44.5% |
| CHAN, HENG M | 1 | 61.0% | +31.9% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18260458 | SEPARATOR FOR LEAD ACID BATTERY | CLARY, KAYLA ELAINE | 33d |
| 18036356 | PASTING PAPER FOR LEAD ACID BATTERIES | BOYD, JENNIFER A | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17801499 | NONWOVEN FABRIC FOR LEAD ACID BATTERIES USING GLASS FIBER AND HEAT-FUSIBLE BINDER FIBER | CHAN, HENG M | 46d overdue |
| 18260458 | SEPARATOR FOR LEAD ACID BATTERY | CLARY, KAYLA ELAINE | 33d |
| 18036356 | PASTING PAPER FOR LEAD ACID BATTERIES | BOYD, JENNIFER A | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1721 | 1 |
| 1722 | 1 |
| 1725 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18260458 | SEPARATOR FOR LEAD ACID BATTERY | CLARY, KAYLA ELAINE | 1721 | §102§103§112 | Final Rejection | 33d | Pending | Jul 05, 2023 |
| 18036356 | PASTING PAPER FOR LEAD ACID BATTERIES | BOYD, JENNIFER A | 1722 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 10, 2023 |
| 17801499 | NONWOVEN FABRIC FOR LEAD ACID BATTERIES USING GLASS FIBER AND HEAT-FUSIBLE BINDER FIBER | CHAN, HENG M | 1725 | §103DP | Final Rejection | 46d overdue | Pending | Aug 22, 2022 |
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