Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
1 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Path Lab Innovation LLC manages 1 pending office action in the Chemistry & Materials technology area. This action is assigned to 1 distinct examiner, KWAK, DEAN P, who is the busiest examiner with 1 pending office action. The portfolio is active in 1 distinct art unit.
The 1 pending office action represents the entirety of the company's current active prosecution. Because KWAK, DEAN P is the only examiner involved, the company's immediate success at the USPTO depends on this 1 individual. The 1 distinct art unit suggests that the technology fits within a specific chemical or material science niche.
This concentration allows for a highly focused response strategy that does not need to account for multiple examiner styles or different art unit standards. Practitioners should focus their resources on the specific requirements of the assigned art unit. The outcome of this single office action will define the immediate success rate for the portfolio, allowing the legal team to prioritize the preferences of the assigned examiner.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| KWAK, DEAN P | 1 | 58.8% | +37.1% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18492428 | SAMPLE PROCESSING CASSETTE | KWAK, DEAN P | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1798 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18492428 | SAMPLE PROCESSING CASSETTE | KWAK, DEAN P | 1798 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Oct 23, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialPath Lab Innovation LLC has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Dean P Kwak has the most, with 1 of Path Lab Innovation LLC's pending office actions.
Mostly Chemistry & Materials (USPTO Tech Center 1700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
