Technology areas: Chemistry & Materials • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 9 patents granted in the last 365 days
Kabushiki Kaisha F.C.C. manages 2 pending office actions in the Chemistry & Materials technology area. These matters are spread across 2 distinct art units, suggesting that the company's current patent applications involve different specialized technical fields. The prosecution is handled by 2 distinct examiners, ensuring that each case receives an independent review from a different individual.
YOON, KEVIN E is the busiest examiner for the portfolio, currently overseeing 1 pending office action. For a practitioner, the fact that 2 pending office actions are distributed among 2 distinct examiners and 2 distinct art units means there is no opportunity to consolidate arguments before a single reviewer. YOON, KEVIN E is the point of contact for 1 of these matters, while the other is managed by a separate examiner in a different technical group.
This decentralized prosecution profile requires a versatile strategy to address the unique requirements of each examiner and art unit. The 2 distinct art units involved may have varying standards for patentability, necessitating a customized approach for each application. The balanced workload between the 2 distinct examiners ensures that the company's current USPTO activity is not concentrated under any single individual, including YOON, KEVIN E.
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 |
|---|---|
| §102 only | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| YOON, KEVIN E | 1 | 59.8% | +42.7% |
| WILSON, GREGORY A | 1 | 81.9% | +6.9% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18740022 | Setter For Firing Ceramic And Method For Producing The Same | WILSON, GREGORY A | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19107098 | METHOD FOR PRODUCING CAST PRODUCT, CAST PRODUCT PRODUCTION DEVICE, AND MOLD | YOON, KEVIN E | 42d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1735 | 1 |
| 3762 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19107098 | METHOD FOR PRODUCING CAST PRODUCT, CAST PRODUCT PRODUCTION DEVICE, AND MOLD | YOON, KEVIN E | 1735 | §102 | Non-Final OA | 42d overdue | Pending | Feb 27, 2025 |
| 18740022 | Setter For Firing Ceramic And Method For Producing The Same | WILSON, GREGORY A | 3762 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 11, 2024 |
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Start Free TrialKabushiki Kaisha F.C.C. has 2 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 2 art units and 2 examiners.
Kevin E Yoon has the most, with 1 of Kabushiki Kaisha F.C.C.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Chemistry & Materials (USPTO Tech Center 1700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
