Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Chemistry & Materials • Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics
6 pending office actions • 3 art units • 6 examiners • 0 of 6 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Hyaxiom Inc. currently faces 6 pending office actions within the Chemistry & Materials technology area. These actions are distributed across 3 distinct art units, which indicates that the company's chemical and material innovations span several specialized sub-fields. This distribution requires the company to adapt to the specific examination cultures and technical standards of 3 different units within the patent office.
The 6 pending office actions are handled by 6 distinct examiners, showing a completely decentralized workload where no two actions are assigned to the same person. TAN, RICHARD is identified as the busiest examiner, though he is responsible for only 1 pending office action. This ratio between the 6 pending office actions and 6 distinct examiners suggests that the company must manage multiple unique examiner relationships simultaneously. This broad examiner base can provide a wide range of feedback but also increases the administrative complexity of the prosecution process.
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 (17%) |
| Double-patenting only | 1 (17%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 1 (17%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 3 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| TAN, RICHARD | 1 | 79.5% | +23.0% |
| RAYMOND, BRITTANY L | 1 | 77.3% | +10.7% |
| WITTENBERG, STEFANIE S | 1 | 54.4% | +17.8% |
| RUFO, LOUIS J | 1 | 54.4% | +22.9% |
| LE, THIEN MINH | 1 | 88.2% | +8.1% |
| SYLVESTER, KEVIN | 1 | 47.5% | +27.4% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18470647 | CROSS-FLOW COMPONENT FOR ELECTROCHEMICAL DEVICE | RUFO, LOUIS J | — |
| 18242101 | FUEL CELLS FOR EV CHARGING | LE, THIEN MINH | — |
| 18460914 | PROTECTIVE BARRIER FOR ELECTROCHEMICAL DEVICE | SYLVESTER, KEVIN | — |
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 5 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18740849 | MULTI-UNIT FUEL CELL SYSTEM WITH MICROGRID | TAN, RICHARD | 78d |
| 18415937 | UNIFIED ASSEMBLY FOR ELECTROCHEMICAL DEVICE | RAYMOND, BRITTANY L | — |
| 18373668 | BI-FUNCTIONAL WEAVE BODY | WITTENBERG, STEFANIE S | — |
| 18470647 | CROSS-FLOW COMPONENT FOR ELECTROCHEMICAL DEVICE | RUFO, LOUIS J | — |
| 18460914 | PROTECTIVE BARRIER FOR ELECTROCHEMICAL DEVICE | SYLVESTER, KEVIN | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1795 | 2 |
| 2849 | 1 |
| 1794 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18740849 | MULTI-UNIT FUEL CELL SYSTEM WITH MICROGRID | TAN, RICHARD | 2849 | DP | Final Rejection | 78d | Pending | Jun 12, 2024 |
| 18415937 | UNIFIED ASSEMBLY FOR ELECTROCHEMICAL DEVICE | RAYMOND, BRITTANY L | — | §102§103DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 18, 2024 |
| 18373668 | BI-FUNCTIONAL WEAVE BODY | WITTENBERG, STEFANIE S | 1795 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 27, 2023 |
| 18470647 | CROSS-FLOW COMPONENT FOR ELECTROCHEMICAL DEVICE | RUFO, LOUIS J | 1795 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 20, 2023 |
| 18242101 | FUEL CELLS FOR EV CHARGING | LE, THIEN MINH | — | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 05, 2023 |
| 18460914 | PROTECTIVE BARRIER FOR ELECTROCHEMICAL DEVICE | SYLVESTER, KEVIN | 1794 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 05, 2023 |
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