Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Chemistry & Materials • Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics
3 pending office actions • 2 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 5 patents granted in the last 365 days
Flooring Technologies Ltd. currently has 3 pending office actions within the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics technology area. These actions are being handled by 3 distinct examiners, meaning that each pending matter is assigned to a different individual. This distribution indicates that the company's prosecution experience is spread across several different examiner perspectives.
The portfolio is active in 2 distinct art units, suggesting that the company's technical innovations in this area are categorized into two primary groups. PYO, KEVIN K is the busiest examiner for the company, currently overseeing 1 pending office action. With 3 distinct examiners each managing 1 pending office action, there is no concentration of active matters under a single person. The 3 pending office actions across 2 distinct art units require the company to manage the specific requirements of these two technical groups while interacting with 3 different examiners to advance its applications toward issuance.
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 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| PYO, KEVIN K | 1 | 87.0% | +9.9% |
| VALENCIA, ALEJANDRO | 1 | 42.7% | +6.0% |
| EMPIE, NATHAN H | 1 | 43.5% | +43.1% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18682314 | Method and Device for Applying a Decoration and a Surface Structure to a Carrier Material | EMPIE, NATHAN H | 9d overdue |
| 18880919 | Method for Determining the Quantity of at Least One Pulverulent Binder in a Mixture Comprising Wood Particles | PYO, KEVIN K | — |
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 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18682314 | Method and Device for Applying a Decoration and a Surface Structure to a Carrier Material | EMPIE, NATHAN H | 9d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2853 | 1 |
| 1712 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18880919 | Method for Determining the Quantity of at Least One Pulverulent Binder in a Mixture Comprising Wood Particles | PYO, KEVIN K | — | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 03, 2025 |
| 18707982 | Method for Determining a Colour Deviation of at Least One Print Decoration Applied to a Carrier Material From a Print Template | VALENCIA, ALEJANDRO | 2853 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 07, 2024 |
| 18682314 | Method and Device for Applying a Decoration and a Surface Structure to a Carrier Material | EMPIE, NATHAN H | 1712 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | 9d overdue | Pending | Feb 08, 2024 |
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