Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
6 pending office actions • 5 art units • 5 examiners • 0 of 6 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 8 patents granted in the last 365 days
Korea Kumho Petrochemical Co., Ltd. has 5 pending office actions in Chemistry & Materials. The matters span 5 distinct examiners and 5 distinct art units, so the workload is distributed across separate examination assignments.
LACLAIR, LOGAN EDWARD is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending action. The even recorded distribution makes individual matter review important, particularly for claim scope, prior-art issues, and examiner-specific response practice.
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 | 4 (67%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (33%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| CAI, WENWEN | 2 | 59.9% | +19.4% |
| LACLAIR, LOGAN EDWARD | 1 | 77.7% | +23.2% |
| PAK, HANNAH J | 1 | 78.2% | +21.3% |
| WILKERSON, JORDAN PATRICK | 1 | — | — |
| LIZARAZU, JESSICA NICOLE | 1 | 100.0% | +0.0% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18526222 | LATEX COMPOSITION FOR DIP-FORMING, METHOD FOR PREPARING THE SAME, AND DIP-FORMED ARTICLE FORMED BY THE SAME | CAI, WENWEN | — |
| 18384469 | BINDER COMPOSITION FOR ALL SOLID STATE SECONDARY BATTERY AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING THE SAME, SLURRY COMPOSITION AND ALL SOLID STATE SECONDARY BATTERY COMPRISING THE SAME | LIZARAZU, JESSICA NICOLE | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18700019 | CATALYST FOR MANUFACTURING CARBON NANOTUBES AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING CARBON NANOTUBES | LACLAIR, LOGAN EDWARD | — |
| 18691812 | COMPOSITION FOR LATEX POLYMERIZATION, LATEX FOR DIP MOLDING, AND DIP MOLDED ARTICLE MANUFACTURED THEREFROM | PAK, HANNAH J | — |
| 18526222 | LATEX COMPOSITION FOR DIP-FORMING, METHOD FOR PREPARING THE SAME, AND DIP-FORMED ARTICLE FORMED BY THE SAME | CAI, WENWEN | — |
| 18517575 | POLYFUNCTIONALIZED HIGH-CIS 1,4-POLYBUTADIENE AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING THE SAME | CAI, WENWEN | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1763 | 2 |
| 1714 | 1 |
| 1764 | 1 |
| 1783 | 1 |
| 1725 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18700019 | CATALYST FOR MANUFACTURING CARBON NANOTUBES AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING CARBON NANOTUBES | LACLAIR, LOGAN EDWARD | 1714 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 10, 2024 |
| 18691812 | COMPOSITION FOR LATEX POLYMERIZATION, LATEX FOR DIP MOLDING, AND DIP MOLDED ARTICLE MANUFACTURED THEREFROM | PAK, HANNAH J | 1764 | §103Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 13, 2024 |
| 18526222 | LATEX COMPOSITION FOR DIP-FORMING, METHOD FOR PREPARING THE SAME, AND DIP-FORMED ARTICLE FORMED BY THE SAME | CAI, WENWEN | 1763 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Dec 01, 2023 |
| 18517575 | POLYFUNCTIONALIZED HIGH-CIS 1,4-POLYBUTADIENE AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING THE SAME | CAI, WENWEN | 1763 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 22, 2023 |
| 18510957 | COMPOSITION FOR FORMING ANODE OF LITHIUM SECONDARY BATTERY | WILKERSON, JORDAN PATRICK | 1783 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Nov 16, 2023 |
| 18384469 | BINDER COMPOSITION FOR ALL SOLID STATE SECONDARY BATTERY AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING THE SAME, SLURRY COMPOSITION AND ALL SOLID STATE SECONDARY BATTERY COMPRISING THE SAME | LIZARAZU, JESSICA NICOLE | 1725 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 27, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialKorea Kumho Petrochemical Co., Ltd. has 6 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 5 art units and 5 examiners.
Wenwen Cai has the most, with 2 of Korea Kumho Petrochemical Co., Ltd.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Chemistry & Materials (USPTO Tech Center 1700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
