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
Ksm Technology Co. Ltd. has 1 pending office action currently active in the Chemistry & Materials technology area. This matter is being reviewed by 1 distinct examiner within 1 distinct art unit. Such a concentrated prosecution profile suggests a singular point of focus for the company's current intellectual property efforts.
The busiest examiner for this portfolio is MENDEZ, ZULMARIAM, who is assigned 1 busiest examiner pending office action. As this represents the total 1 pending office action for the company, the examiner's specific interpretation of the Chemistry & Materials field will be decisive. This relationship simplifies the communication strategy for the applicant.
Because the company is only interacting with a single distinct art unit, there is no need to manage differing procedural requirements across different units. The focus remains entirely on the assigned official and the single active case. This streamlined status allows for a precise allocation of legal resources toward resolving the current prosecution hurdle.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| MENDEZ, ZULMARIAM | 1 | 66.1% | +21.1% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18263109 | METHOD FOR ELECTROWINNING NEODYMIUM COMPOUND AND MANUFACTURING METHOD FOR NEODYMIUM COMPOUND GRANULES USED THEREOF | MENDEZ, ZULMARIAM | 69d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1794 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18263109 | METHOD FOR ELECTROWINNING NEODYMIUM COMPOUND AND MANUFACTURING METHOD FOR NEODYMIUM COMPOUND GRANULES USED THEREOF | MENDEZ, ZULMARIAM | 1794 | §103 | Final Rejection | 69d | Pending | Jul 26, 2023 |
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