Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
1 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 2 patents granted in the last 365 days
Gilson SAS has 1 pending office action in Chemistry & Materials. The matter involves 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit, giving the record a single examination path.
KWAK, DEAN P is the busiest examiner and handles the pending matter. Counsel can focus on that examiner's materials analysis and the requirements associated with the assigned art unit.
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 |
|---|---|
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (100%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| KWAK, DEAN P | 1 | 58.8% | +37.1% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18691719 | POSITIVE DISPLACEMENT SAMPLING DEVICE, DESIGNED TO FACILITATE CAPILLARY EJECTION | KWAK, DEAN P | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18691719 | POSITIVE DISPLACEMENT SAMPLING DEVICE, DESIGNED TO FACILITATE CAPILLARY EJECTION | KWAK, DEAN P | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1798 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18691719 | POSITIVE DISPLACEMENT SAMPLING DEVICE, DESIGNED TO FACILITATE CAPILLARY EJECTION | KWAK, DEAN P | 1798 | §102§112Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 13, 2024 |
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Start Free TrialGilson SAS has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Dean P Kwak has the most, with 1 of Gilson SAS's pending office actions.
Mostly Chemistry & Materials (USPTO Tech Center 1700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
