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 • 2 patents granted in the last 365 days
Kcc Corporation currently manages 1 pending office action within the Chemistry & Materials technology area. This single action is assigned to examiner EGWIM, KELECHI CHIDI, who represents the only distinct examiner currently handling the company patent portfolio. All active prosecution is located within 1 distinct art unit.
EGWIM, KELECHI CHIDI is the busiest examiner for the company and holds 1 pending office action. This indicates that the current prosecution landscape involves 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit. Practitioners can expect a centralized interaction with the USPTO for this portfolio.
The workload is currently limited to the busiest examiner who has 1 pending action. Because there is only 1 distinct art unit involved, the technical focus of the examination is specific. Practitioners working with EGWIM, KELECHI CHIDI will find that this individual manages the entirety of the company's currently pending work.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| EGWIM, KELECHI CHIDI | 1 | 70.0% | +14.4% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18135867 | PAINT COMPOSITION CONTAINING BIO-RESIN WITH IMPROVED CHEMICAL RESISTANCE | EGWIM, KELECHI CHIDI | 53d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1764 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18135867 | PAINT COMPOSITION CONTAINING BIO-RESIN WITH IMPROVED CHEMICAL RESISTANCE | EGWIM, KELECHI CHIDI | 1764 | §103 | Final Rejection | 53d overdue | Pending | Apr 18, 2023 |
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