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
Kt&G Corpotation currently manages 1 pending office action within the Chemistry & Materials technology area. This active prosecution is concentrated under 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit, indicating a highly focused portfolio at this stage. SZEWCZYK, CYNTHIA serves as the busiest examiner for the company, currently overseeing 1 busiest examiner pending action.
The concentration of work with 1 distinct examiner suggests that the outcome of this single matter will significantly impact the company's immediate progress in the Chemistry & Materials sector. Practitioners should monitor the interactions with SZEWCZYK, CYNTHIA, as this individual handles the entirety of the company's current workload. Because the activity is limited to 1 distinct art unit, the prosecution strategy appears specialized, requiring a deep understanding of the art unit's standards to successfully resolve the 1 pending office action. The resolution of the 1 busiest examiner pending action is the primary priority for 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 | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| SZEWCZYK, CYNTHIA | 1 | 73.7% | +10.1% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18287929 | SMOKING ARTICLE AND AEROSOL GENERATING SYSTEM INCLUDING THE SAME | SZEWCZYK, CYNTHIA | 33d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1741 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18287929 | SMOKING ARTICLE AND AEROSOL GENERATING SYSTEM INCLUDING THE SAME | SZEWCZYK, CYNTHIA | 1741 | §103 | Final Rejection | 33d | Pending | Oct 23, 2023 |
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