1 pending office actions • 0 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Kep Innovation Center SA currently has 1 pending office action under review. This action is being handled by a distinct examiner, ZHANG, MICHAEL N, who is also identified as the busiest examiner for the company with 1 pending office action. The data indicates that there are 0 distinct art units associated with this portfolio, which is the recorded state for this pending matter.
Because the company has a pending office action, its entire current U.S. patent prosecution strategy is directed to the feedback from ZHANG, MICHAEL N. There are no other examiners to provide a comparative baseline for the company's experience. Practitioners should focus exclusively on the specific requirements and office actions issued by this examiner to advance the portfolio. The absence of 0 distinct art units suggests a need for monitoring of the case's classification as it moves through the system. This 1 pending office action is the only active matter currently tracked for the company.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ZHANG, MICHAEL N | 1 | 54.5% | +22.5% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18854273 | FUNCTIONAL HALIDE PEROVSKITE COMPOSITES | ZHANG, MICHAEL N | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18854273 | FUNCTIONAL HALIDE PEROVSKITE COMPOSITES | ZHANG, MICHAEL N | — |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18854273 | FUNCTIONAL HALIDE PEROVSKITE COMPOSITES | ZHANG, MICHAEL N | — | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 04, 2024 |
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Start Free TrialKep Innovation Center SA has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 0 art units and 1 examiners.
Michael N Zhang has the most, with 1 of Kep Innovation Center SA's pending office actions.