Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
1 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Hanguk Mold Co. Ltd. maintains a focused patent prosecution presence within the Chemistry & Materials technology area. The company currently has 1 pending office action, which is being reviewed by 1 distinct examiner. This singular focus indicates that the company's current intellectual property efforts are concentrated rather than distributed across multiple technical fields or examination teams. By operating within 1 distinct art unit, the portfolio avoids the complexity of navigating different examination standards or procedural variations often found across diverse units. This concentration allows the applicant to tailor their legal arguments to a specific regulatory environment.
The busiest examiner for this portfolio is MELENDEZ, ARMAND, who is currently handling 1 busiest examiner pending action. This means that the entirety of the company's active prosecution before the USPTO is subject to the review of this specific individual. For the applicant, this creates a high level of dependency on the examiner's specific interpretation of the Chemistry & Materials field. The fact that there is only 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit suggests a streamlined but highly centralized approach to securing patent rights for their current innovations. Practitioners should focus on the historical trends of MELENDEZ, ARMAND to optimize their response strategy.
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 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| MELENDEZ, ARMAND | 1 | 46.2% | +43.1% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18503367 | INJECTION MOLDING APPARATUS AND COTTER | MELENDEZ, ARMAND | 27d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1759 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18503367 | INJECTION MOLDING APPARATUS AND COTTER | MELENDEZ, ARMAND | 1759 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 27d | Pending | Nov 07, 2023 |
IP Author helps IP teams respond to office actions faster with AI-generated responses, examiner analytics, and prosecution intelligence.
Start Free Trial