Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
1 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Lt Metal Co. Ltd. currently manages 1 pending office action within the Chemistry & Materials technology area. This matter is assigned to 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit. The concentration of the portfolio suggests a specific technical focus for the company's current patenting efforts.
CHUNG, HOSUNG CHARLES serves as the busiest examiner for this portfolio, also accounting for 1 pending office action. Because this busiest examiner pending count matches the total pending office actions for the company, this individual handles the active workload. Practitioners should monitor this specific examiner's historical trends to anticipate the trajectory of the pending application.
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 |
|---|---|
| §102 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| CHUNG, HOSUNG CHARLES | 1 | 59.2% | +38.1% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18233543 | POROUS BASE LAYER AND METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MANUFACTURING THE SAME | CHUNG, HOSUNG CHARLES | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1794 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18233543 | POROUS BASE LAYER AND METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MANUFACTURING THE SAME | CHUNG, HOSUNG CHARLES | 1794 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 14, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialLt Metal Co. Ltd. has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Hosung Charles Chung has the most, with 1 of Lt Metal Co. Ltd.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Chemistry & Materials (USPTO Tech Center 1700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
