Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Chemistry & Materials • Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
9 pending office actions • 5 art units • 8 examiners • 0 of 9 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 7 patents granted in the last 365 days
Icon Technology Inc. is currently processing 8 pending office actions within the Chemistry & Materials technology area. These matters are distributed across 7 distinct examiners, showing that the company's patent applications are being reviewed by a broad group of officials. The workload spans 4 distinct art units, which implies that the company's technical innovations fall into several different specialized categories within the chemistry field.
The busiest examiner for this portfolio is Ye, Xinwen, who is currently responsible for 2 pending office actions. This means that while most of the pending office actions are being handled by separate individuals, Ye, Xinwen has a slightly higher concentration of the company's active cases. For a patent practitioner, this indicates that the majority of the portfolio's prosecution is decentralized across 7 distinct examiners.
The involvement of 4 distinct art units requires the applicant to navigate the specific procedural nuances of multiple sections within the patent office. With 8 pending office actions in total, the company must manage a steady stream of correspondence across these various units. The fact that distinct examiners are involved suggests that the outcomes of these applications are largely independent of one another.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 8 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.
Every pending office action with a known statutory deadline, placed on a days-until-due axis. Dots left of Today are overdue; the further right, the more runway. Cases that share a deadline window stack vertically. 8 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.
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 | 5 (56%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 1 (11%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 3 (33%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| YE, XINWEN | 2 | 43.4% | +44.0% |
| LUK, EMMANUEL S | 1 | 71.5% | +26.3% |
| ROBITAILLE, JOHN P | 1 | 62.6% | +22.0% |
| MALIK, VIPUL | 1 | 62.1% | +35.7% |
| MINTZ, RODNEY K | 1 | 79.0% | +10.7% |
| DARNELL, BAILEIGH K | 1 | 70.2% | +26.2% |
| SHALABY, AHMAD HUSSAM | 1 | 0.0% | +0.0% |
| KWIECINSKI, RYAN D | 1 | 68.2% | +19.7% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 4 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18213804 | THREE-DIMENSIONAL PRINTER NOZZLE AND ASSEMBLY | YE, XINWEN | 39d |
| 17676476 | METHODS, APPARATUS, AND SYSTEM TO PROVIDE REAL-TIME ADJUSTMENT FOR THE THREE-DIMENSIONAL PRINTING OF ARCHITECTURAL STRUCTURES | SHALABY, AHMAD HUSSAM | 69d |
| 18213805 | THREE-DIMENSIONAL PRINTER NOZZLE AND ASSEMBLY | YE, XINWEN | 82d |
| 18109823 | ADDITIVE CONSTRUCTION OF STRUCTURES AND PRODUCTION OF ADDITIVE CONSTRUCTION MATERIALS | DARNELL, BAILEIGH 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 8 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18204298 | WALL STRUCTURES OF EXTRUDABLE BUILDING MATERIAL | MALIK, VIPUL | 88d overdue |
| 18586032 | ADJUSTMENT OF A SPATIAL POSITION OF A MATERIAL DEPOSITION DEVICE ALIGNED TO DEPOSIT A STRUCTURAL MATERIAL AT A TARGET POINT OF DEPOSITION | LUK, EMMANUEL S | 12d |
| 18444565 | IN-SITU APPLICATION OF ADAPTIVE LEVELS OF ENERGY APPLIED TO A SUBSET OF INDIGENOUS PARTICULATE TO FORM STRUCTURES IN A VACUUM | ROBITAILLE, JOHN P | 35d |
| 18213804 | THREE-DIMENSIONAL PRINTER NOZZLE AND ASSEMBLY | YE, XINWEN | 39d |
| 17533831 | UTILIZING UNPROCESSED CLAY IN THE THREE DIMENSIONAL ADDITIVE PRINTING OF MORTAR ONTO A BUILDING STRUCTURE | KWIECINSKI, RYAN D | 65d |
| 18213805 | THREE-DIMENSIONAL PRINTER NOZZLE AND ASSEMBLY | YE, XINWEN | 82d |
| 18204327 | WALL STRUCTURES OF EXTRUDABLE BUILDING MATERIAL | MINTZ, RODNEY K | 83d |
| 18109823 | ADDITIVE CONSTRUCTION OF STRUCTURES AND PRODUCTION OF ADDITIVE CONSTRUCTION MATERIALS | DARNELL, BAILEIGH K | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1754 | 3 |
| 1743 | 2 |
| 3635 | 2 |
| 1744 | 1 |
| 2187 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18586032 | ADJUSTMENT OF A SPATIAL POSITION OF A MATERIAL DEPOSITION DEVICE ALIGNED TO DEPOSIT A STRUCTURAL MATERIAL AT A TARGET POINT OF DEPOSITION | LUK, EMMANUEL S | 1744 | §103 | Final Rejection | 12d | Pending | Feb 23, 2024 |
| 18444565 | IN-SITU APPLICATION OF ADAPTIVE LEVELS OF ENERGY APPLIED TO A SUBSET OF INDIGENOUS PARTICULATE TO FORM STRUCTURES IN A VACUUM | ROBITAILLE, JOHN P | 1743 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 35d | Pending | Feb 16, 2024 |
| 18213805 | THREE-DIMENSIONAL PRINTER NOZZLE AND ASSEMBLY | YE, XINWEN | 1754 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | 82d | Pending | Jun 23, 2023 |
| 18213804 | THREE-DIMENSIONAL PRINTER NOZZLE AND ASSEMBLY | YE, XINWEN | 1754 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | 39d | Pending | Jun 23, 2023 |
| 18204298 | WALL STRUCTURES OF EXTRUDABLE BUILDING MATERIAL | MALIK, VIPUL | 1754 | §103 | Final Rejection | 88d overdue | Pending | May 31, 2023 |
| 18204327 | WALL STRUCTURES OF EXTRUDABLE BUILDING MATERIAL | MINTZ, RODNEY K | 3635 | §103DP | Non-Final OA | 83d | Pending | May 31, 2023 |
| 18109823 | ADDITIVE CONSTRUCTION OF STRUCTURES AND PRODUCTION OF ADDITIVE CONSTRUCTION MATERIALS | DARNELL, BAILEIGH K | 1743 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Feb 14, 2023 |
| 17676476 | METHODS, APPARATUS, AND SYSTEM TO PROVIDE REAL-TIME ADJUSTMENT FOR THE THREE-DIMENSIONAL PRINTING OF ARCHITECTURAL STRUCTURES | SHALABY, AHMAD HUSSAM | 2187 | §103 | Final Rejection | 69d | Pending | Feb 21, 2022 |
| 17533831 | UTILIZING UNPROCESSED CLAY IN THE THREE DIMENSIONAL ADDITIVE PRINTING OF MORTAR ONTO A BUILDING STRUCTURE | KWIECINSKI, RYAN D | 3635 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 65d | Pending | Nov 23, 2021 |
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