Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
3 pending office actions • 3 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Meld Manufacturing Corporation is currently navigating 3 pending office actions within the Chemistry & Materials technology area. These actions are distributed across 3 distinct examiners and 3 distinct art units, indicating a spread of technical subject matter even within the primary technology category. This distribution suggests that the company is pursuing diverse innovations that require review from multiple specialized groups at the patent office.
The busiest examiner identified in the data is WU, JENNY R, who is currently handling 1 pending office action. Given that the total number of pending office actions is 3, the workload is distributed among the 3 distinct examiners. This lack of concentration means that no single examiner holds a majority of the company's active cases. Practitioners should prepare for varied feedback across these different art units, as each of the 3 examiners will likely apply different interpretive standards to the Chemistry & Materials filings.
Because there are 3 distinct art units involved, the company must manage its intellectual property across several administrative boundaries. The busiest examiner, WU, JENNY R, is responsible for 1 pending office action, which represents only a portion of the total activity. This requires a flexible prosecution strategy that accounts for the unique requirements of each examiner and art unit involved in the Chemistry & Materials 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 |
|---|---|
| Double-patenting + other | 1 (33%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (67%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| WU, JENNY R | 1 | 63.5% | +16.0% |
| STONER, KILEY SHAWN | 1 | 80.8% | +15.3% |
| HAUTH, GALEN H | 1 | 64.8% | +18.0% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18380572 | 6000 SERIES ALUMINUM ALLOY PRODUCTS PRODUCED USING SOLID STATE MANUFACTURING | WU, JENNY R | 12d |
| 18482785 | SOLID-STATE JOINING OF FEATURES TO CAST PARTS | STONER, KILEY SHAWN | — |
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 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18380572 | 6000 SERIES ALUMINUM ALLOY PRODUCTS PRODUCED USING SOLID STATE MANUFACTURING | WU, JENNY R | 12d |
| 18482785 | SOLID-STATE JOINING OF FEATURES TO CAST PARTS | STONER, KILEY SHAWN | — |
| 17395891 | ACCESSORY DEVICE FOR A SOLID-STATE ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING SYSTEM ENABLING PRINTING OF LARGE AND COMPLEX PARTS | HAUTH, GALEN H | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1733 | 1 |
| 1735 | 1 |
| 1743 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18380572 | 6000 SERIES ALUMINUM ALLOY PRODUCTS PRODUCED USING SOLID STATE MANUFACTURING | WU, JENNY R | 1733 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | 12d | Pending | Oct 16, 2023 |
| 18482785 | SOLID-STATE JOINING OF FEATURES TO CAST PARTS | STONER, KILEY SHAWN | 1735 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 06, 2023 |
| 17395891 | ACCESSORY DEVICE FOR A SOLID-STATE ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING SYSTEM ENABLING PRINTING OF LARGE AND COMPLEX PARTS | HAUTH, GALEN H | 1743 | §102DP | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Aug 06, 2021 |
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