Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
1 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Kt&G Coporation maintains 1 pending office action in the Chemistry & Materials technology area. The company's current prosecution involves 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit. This suggests a singular technological focus for the company's active filings, likely related to a specific chemical or material science innovation. The concentration in 1 art unit indicates that the technology is classified within a narrow technical field at the patent office. This streamlined approach allows the company to focus its legal resources on a single examination process.
SPARKS, RUSSELL E is the busiest examiner for the company, managing 1 busiest examiner pending action. This examiner is responsible for the entirety of the company's pending workload. The outcome of this single action in the designated 1 art unit will define the company's current progress in the Chemistry & Materials sector. For the practitioner, the strategy must be tailored to the specific requirements and feedback of this 1 examiner. The company's immediate patenting goals are entirely dependent on the resolution of this 1 pending action. Success hinges on navigating the examiner's specific technical standards.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| SPARKS, RUSSELL E | 1 | 64.1% | +14.0% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17611219 | AEROSOL GENERATING DEVICE | SPARKS, RUSSELL E | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17611219 | AEROSOL GENERATING DEVICE | SPARKS, RUSSELL E | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1755 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17611219 | AEROSOL GENERATING DEVICE | SPARKS, RUSSELL E | 1755 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Dec 02, 2021 |
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Start Free TrialKt&G Coporation has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Russell E Sparks has the most, with 1 of Kt&G Coporation's pending office actions.
Mostly Chemistry & Materials (USPTO Tech Center 1700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
