Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 2 patents granted in the last 365 days
K K Sun Metalon maintains a patent portfolio in the Chemistry & Materials technology area. The company currently has 2 pending office actions. These 2 actions are spread across 2 distinct examiners and 2 distinct art units. This shows a prosecution landscape where each matter is handled by a different examiner in a different art unit.
PATEL, DEVANG R is the busiest examiner for the company, currently handling 1 pending office action. The presence of 2 distinct art units for 2 pending actions suggests that the company's Chemistry & Materials innovations are being evaluated across different technical classifications. This requires a prosecution strategy that accounts for the different examination standards found in 2 separate art units. Practitioners must be prepared for unique feedback on each application since no 2 cases share an examiner or an art unit.
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 |
|---|---|
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| PATEL, DEVANG R | 1 | 65.6% | +39.2% |
| SMOOT, MORIAH SIMONE MCMIL | 1 | 63.9% | +6.7% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19114595 | METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING RECYCLED ALUMINUM METAL LUMP | SMOOT, MORIAH SIMONE MCMIL | 14d |
| 19218024 | JOINED SOLID PRODUCTION METHOD | PATEL, DEVANG R | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19218024 | JOINED SOLID PRODUCTION METHOD | PATEL, DEVANG R | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1735 | 1 |
| 1733 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19218024 | JOINED SOLID PRODUCTION METHOD | PATEL, DEVANG R | 1735 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | May 23, 2025 |
| 19114595 | METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING RECYCLED ALUMINUM METAL LUMP | SMOOT, MORIAH SIMONE MCMIL | 1733 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | 14d | Pending | Mar 24, 2025 |
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