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
K D W Company Limited is active in the Chemistry & Materials technology area, where it currently faces 1 pending office action. This matter is assigned to 1 distinct examiner, UTECH, BENJAMIN L, who is the busiest examiner for the company. The prosecution is occurring within a distinct art unit, showing a centralized administrative path for the company's current patent applications.
This concentration in Chemistry & Materials suggests that the company's immediate intellectual property focus is narrow. With a single examiner and art unit involved, the prosecution experience is entirely defined by the interactions with UTECH, BENJAMIN L. The data indicates a lack of diversification in the current pending workload, as all active office actions are consolidated under a single examiner. The concentration of all active matters under a single examiner suggests that the company's current prosecution results are highly sensitive to the specific review criteria of that individual.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| UTECH, BENJAMIN L | 1 | 100.0% | +0.0% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18457569 | SAFE AND EFFICIENT DISH WASHING MACHINE | UTECH, BENJAMIN L | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1700 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18457569 | SAFE AND EFFICIENT DISH WASHING MACHINE | UTECH, BENJAMIN L | 1700 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Aug 29, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialK D W Company Limited has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Benjamin L Utech has the most, with 1 of K D W Company Limited's pending office actions.
Mostly Chemistry & Materials (USPTO Tech Center 1700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
