Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
1 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Improve currently manages 1 pending office action in the Chemistry & Materials technology area. This activity is concentrated under 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit. This suggests a targeted approach to securing intellectual property for its chemical developments, which are being reviewed within a single specialized division of the USPTO.
HONG THI YOO is the busiest examiner for the company, overseeing 1 pending office action. Because the portfolio involves only 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit, the company's prosecution results are currently dependent on a single point of contact. The 1 pending office action represents the entirety of the company's active matters in the Chemistry & Materials sector. Practitioners should focus on the specific examination history of the 1 distinct examiner to better predict the timeline and potential hurdles for this single pending application.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| YOO, HONG THI | 1 | 46.0% | +25.3% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18012886 | PRODUCTION OF NON-PRECIPITATED PLANT PROTEIN ISOLATES | YOO, HONG THI | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18012886 | PRODUCTION OF NON-PRECIPITATED PLANT PROTEIN ISOLATES | YOO, HONG THI | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1792 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18012886 | PRODUCTION OF NON-PRECIPITATED PLANT PROTEIN ISOLATES | YOO, HONG THI | 1792 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Dec 23, 2022 |
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Start Free TrialImprove has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Hong Thi Yoo has the most, with 1 of Improve's pending office actions.
Mostly Chemistry & Materials (USPTO Tech Center 1700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
