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 • 2 patents granted in the last 365 days
Indium Corporation is active in the Chemistry & Materials technology area with 1 pending office action currently under review. This action is assigned to 1 distinct art unit, which reflects a specific technical focus for the company's pending matter. The prosecution is being handled by 1 distinct examiner, KIM, YUNJU, who is also identified as the busiest examiner for the portfolio. This 1 busiest examiner pending office action matches the total of 1 pending office action for the entire company, indicating a highly concentrated workload.
The presence of 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit means that Indium Corporation's immediate patent goals are subject to a single review process. For a practitioner, this requires a strategy tailored to the specific examination style of KIM, YUNJU within the Chemistry & Materials field. The fact that there is only 1 pending office action simplifies the management of deadlines but places significant importance on the outcome of this individual case. The concentration in 1 distinct art unit suggests that the company is targeting a narrow technical niche in its current intellectual property efforts.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| KIM, YUNJU | 1 | 55.2% | +35.3% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18454606 | THERMALLY DECOMPOSING BUILD PLATE FOR FACILE RELEASE OF 3D PRINTED OBJECTS | KIM, YUNJU | 71d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1738 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18454606 | THERMALLY DECOMPOSING BUILD PLATE FOR FACILE RELEASE OF 3D PRINTED OBJECTS | KIM, YUNJU | 1738 | §103 | Final Rejection | 71d | Pending | Aug 23, 2023 |
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