Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 3 patents granted in the last 365 days
King Steel Machinery Co. Ltd. has 4 pending office actions in Chemistry & Materials. The matters are distributed across 4 examiners and 4 art units, indicating separate examination settings for the active actions.
SWIER, WAYNE K. is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending matter. Counsel should therefore review each record independently, while maintaining consistent technical terminology and claim objectives across the portfolio.
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 | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| TAUFIQ, FARAH N | 1 | 61.3% | +23.9% |
| AHMED ALI, MOHAMED K | 1 | 70.9% | +26.6% |
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 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18900906 | INJECTION MOLDING SYSTEM AND METHOD OF USING THE SAME TO MANUFACTURE ARTICLE | TAUFIQ, FARAH N | 15d |
| 18822509 | INJECTION MOLDING SYSTEM AND METHOD | AHMED ALI, MOHAMED K | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1754 | 1 |
| 1743 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18900906 | INJECTION MOLDING SYSTEM AND METHOD OF USING THE SAME TO MANUFACTURE ARTICLE | TAUFIQ, FARAH N | 1754 | §103 | Final Rejection | 15d | Pending | Sep 30, 2024 |
| 18822509 | INJECTION MOLDING SYSTEM AND METHOD | AHMED ALI, MOHAMED K | 1743 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Sep 03, 2024 |
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Start Free TrialKing Steel Machinery Co. Ltd. has 2 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 2 art units and 2 examiners.
Farah N Taufiq has the most, with 1 of King Steel Machinery Co. Ltd.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Chemistry & Materials (USPTO Tech Center 1700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
