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
Jong Mo Kim currently manages 1 pending office action within the Chemistry & Materials technology area. This single active matter is assigned to 1 distinct examiner, indicating a highly concentrated prosecution focus at this stage. The presence of 1 distinct art unit suggests that the portfolio's current activity is confined to a specific technical niche within the broader chemistry sector. This lack of distribution across multiple units or examiners simplifies the administrative tracking of the portfolio but increases dependency on a single point of review.
Examiner LEE, KEVIN G is identified as the busiest examiner for this portfolio, currently handling 1 pending office action. Because this examiner is responsible for the entirety of the pending workload, the prosecution timeline for the portfolio is directly tied to the individual throughput and responsiveness of this specific official. Practitioners should monitor the progress of this matter to gauge the overall momentum of the current Chemistry & Materials filings. The 1 to 1 ratio of pending actions to examiners ensures that no single examiner is overwhelmed by this applicant's specific filings, allowing for a dedicated dialogue between the applicant and the patent office.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| LEE, KEVIN G | 1 | 64.1% | +27.2% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18834103 | HIGH-PRESSURE WASHER | LEE, KEVIN G | 43d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1711 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18834103 | HIGH-PRESSURE WASHER | LEE, KEVIN G | 1711 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 43d overdue | Pending | Jul 29, 2024 |
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