Technology areas: Chemistry & Materials • Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics
3 pending office actions • 3 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 2 patents granted in the last 365 days
Microwave Chemical Co. Ltd. has 3 pending office actions in Chemistry & Materials. The matters are assigned to 3 distinct examiners and 3 distinct art units, indicating a distributed prosecution workload.
LUK, VANESSA TIBAY is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending matter. The data favors separate examination analyses and deadline controls for each matter rather than a single examiner-centered strategy.
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 | 2 (67%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (33%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| LUK, VANESSA TIBAY | 1 | 54.5% | +26.3% |
| BACHNER, ROBERT G | 1 | 87.7% | +7.7% |
| LEE, JOHN | 1 | 31.7% | +37.7% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18029618 | MICROWAVE PROCESSING DEVICE, AND MICROWAVE PROCESSING METHOD | BACHNER, ROBERT G | — |
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.
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 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 16962972 | MICROWAVE TREATMENT APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING CARBON FIBER | LEE, JOHN | 32d overdue |
| 18013089 | Method for Producing Silver Nanowires | LUK, VANESSA TIBAY | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1733 | 1 |
| 2898 | 1 |
| 1794 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18013089 | Method for Producing Silver Nanowires | LUK, VANESSA TIBAY | 1733 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 03, 2023 |
| 18029618 | MICROWAVE PROCESSING DEVICE, AND MICROWAVE PROCESSING METHOD | BACHNER, ROBERT G | 2898 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Aug 11, 2023 |
| 16962972 | MICROWAVE TREATMENT APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING CARBON FIBER | LEE, JOHN | 1794 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | 32d overdue | Pending | Feb 08, 2021 |
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Start Free TrialMicrowave Chemical Co. Ltd. has 3 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 3 art units and 3 examiners.
Vanessa Tibay Luk has the most, with 1 of Microwave Chemical Co. Ltd.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Chemistry & Materials (USPTO Tech Center 1700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
