Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
4 pending office actions • 3 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 4 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 2 patents granted in the last 365 days
King Steel Machinery Co. Ltd. is managing 5 pending office actions in the Chemistry & Materials technology area. These actions are spread across 4 distinct examiners, indicating a concentration of the workload where Wayne K. Swier handles 2 actions. The portfolio involves 3 distinct art units, reflecting a technical breadth that covers multiple chemical or material classifications within the patent office's organizational structure.
Wayne K. Swier is the busiest examiner, currently responsible for 2 pending actions. With 5 pending office actions and 4 distinct examiners, the company's strategy must account for the specific tendencies of this group of officials while maintaining a consistent technical narrative. The involvement of 3 art units suggests that the company's innovations are being tested against different sets of technical prior art, requiring a varied prosecution approach that addresses the unique standards of each unit.
The presence of the pending actions across the assigned art units highlights the company's active pursuit of intellectual property in the materials sector. Because Wayne K. Swier handles 2 of these actions, his decisions will have a significant impact on the overall success rate of the current portfolio. Practitioners should analyze the 4 distinct examiners to identify any common themes in their rejections, while also recognizing that the 3 art units may impose different evidentiary requirements for patentability.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 2 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 (25%) |
| §102 only | 1 (25%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (50%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| SWIER, WAYNE K. | 2 | 67.6% | +19.6% |
| PAGE, HANA C | 1 | 60.3% | +32.8% |
| TAUFIQ, FARAH N | 1 | 61.6% | +25.2% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18748101 | INJECTION MOLDING SYSTEM AND METHOD | SWIER, WAYNE K. | 22d |
| 18957844 | INJECTION MOLDING SYSTEM HAVING MOVABLE MOLDING DEVICE AND METHOD THEREOF | PAGE, HANA C | — |
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 4 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 |
| 18748101 | INJECTION MOLDING SYSTEM AND METHOD | SWIER, WAYNE K. | 22d |
| 19063333 | INJECTION MOLDING METHOD | SWIER, WAYNE K. | — |
| 18957844 | INJECTION MOLDING SYSTEM HAVING MOVABLE MOLDING DEVICE AND METHOD THEREOF | PAGE, HANA C | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1745 | 1 |
| 1754 | 1 |
| 1748 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19063333 | INJECTION MOLDING METHOD | SWIER, WAYNE K. | — | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 26, 2025 |
| 18957844 | INJECTION MOLDING SYSTEM HAVING MOVABLE MOLDING DEVICE AND METHOD THEREOF | PAGE, HANA C | 1745 | §102§103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Nov 24, 2024 |
| 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 |
| 18748101 | INJECTION MOLDING SYSTEM AND METHOD | SWIER, WAYNE K. | 1748 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | 22d | Pending | Jun 20, 2024 |
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