Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
3 pending office actions • 3 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 5 patents granted in the last 365 days
Jiangsu Leuven Instruments Co. Ltd. has 3 pending office actions in Chemistry & Materials. Each matter is associated with a distinct examiner and a distinct art unit, showing that the docket is distributed across separate examination assignments rather than concentrated with one examiner.
TRAN, BINH X is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending matter. Prosecution planning should therefore use a matter-specific approach, while maintaining consistent technical positions across the separate art-unit contexts.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 3 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. 3 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 | 2 (67%) |
| §102 only | 1 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| TRAN, BINH X | 1 | 81.7% | +11.9% |
| CHEN, KEATH T | 1 | 30.2% | +24.7% |
| ALEJANDRO MULERO, LUZ L | 1 | 47.9% | +39.7% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18293322 | PLASMA TREATMENT METHOD | TRAN, BINH X | 27d |
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 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18043492 | ION BEAM ETCHING MACHINE AND LIFTING AND ROTATING PLATFORM DEVICE THEREOF | CHEN, KEATH T | 30d overdue |
| 18293322 | PLASMA TREATMENT METHOD | TRAN, BINH X | 27d |
| 17626501 | PLASMA ETCHING SYSTEM | ALEJANDRO MULERO, LUZ L | 72d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1713 | 1 |
| 1718 | 1 |
| 1716 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18293322 | PLASMA TREATMENT METHOD | TRAN, BINH X | 1713 | §102 | Final Rejection | 27d | Pending | Jan 29, 2024 |
| 18043492 | ION BEAM ETCHING MACHINE AND LIFTING AND ROTATING PLATFORM DEVICE THEREOF | CHEN, KEATH T | 1718 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 30d overdue | Pending | Feb 28, 2023 |
| 17626501 | PLASMA ETCHING SYSTEM | ALEJANDRO MULERO, LUZ L | 1716 | §103 | Final Rejection | 72d | Pending | Jan 12, 2022 |
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Start Free TrialJiangsu Leuven Instruments Co. Ltd. has 3 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 3 art units and 3 examiners.
Binh X Tran has the most, with 1 of Jiangsu Leuven Instruments Co. Ltd.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Chemistry & Materials (USPTO Tech Center 1700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
