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 • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Microwave Chemical Co. Ltd. holds a portfolio in the Chemistry & Materials technology area. There is currently 1 pending office action for the company. This action is being reviewed by LUK, VANESSA TIBAY, who is the busiest examiner for the company with 1 pending matter. This single pending action represents the entirety of the company's current engagement with the patent office.
The company's prosecution involves 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit. The 1 distinct art unit indicates that the company's current technical focus is confined to a single administrative group. Because there is only 1 pending office action, the company faces a very light prosecution workload at this time. The alignment of 1 distinct examiner with 1 distinct art unit suggests that the company's current patenting efforts are highly specialized and concentrated in one area.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| LUK, VANESSA TIBAY | 1 | 54.4% | +26.3% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18013089 | Method for Producing Silver Nanowires | LUK, VANESSA TIBAY | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1733 | 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 |
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