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
Industry-Academic Coorporation Foundation Yonsei University manages a company patent portfolio in the Chemistry & Materials technology area. The portfolio currently has 1 pending office action, representing the active legal work being performed at the patent office. This single action suggests a targeted approach to securing intellectual property rights for a specific innovation.
The prosecution is overseen by 1 distinct examiner. This examiner is part of 1 distinct art unit, indicating that the foundation's current Chemistry & Materials research is being evaluated within a specific technical framework. WEST, ROBERT GENE is the busiest examiner for this portfolio. This individual is responsible for the 1 pending office action currently in the examination phase.
Because the busiest examiner pending count is 1, the foundation's immediate patenting outcomes are concentrated under one official. This allows for a direct and focused dialogue between the applicant and the 1 distinct examiner. However, it also means that the foundation's current success in the Chemistry & Materials sector depends on the outcome of this single pending action.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| WEST, ROBERT GENE | 1 | 74.8% | +24.4% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18019068 | SEPARATOR FOR LITHIUM SECONDARY BATTERY AND MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREFOR | WEST, ROBERT GENE | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1721 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18019068 | SEPARATOR FOR LITHIUM SECONDARY BATTERY AND MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREFOR | WEST, ROBERT GENE | 1721 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 31, 2023 |
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