Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals • Chemistry & Materials
4 pending office actions • 4 art units • 4 examiners • 0 of 4 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Polymer Technology Systems Inc. is managing 4 pending office actions within the Chemistry & Materials technology area. This workload is distributed across 4 distinct examiners and 4 distinct art units, indicating a broad prosecution front where each pending matter is handled by a different examiner.
LYLE, SOPHIA YUAN is identified as the busiest examiner, though they are responsible for 1 busiest examiner pending action. Because the total 4 pending office actions are spread across 4 distinct examiners, no single examiner holds more than 1 of the company's active office action responses.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 2 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 (50%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (50%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| LYLE, SOPHIA YUAN | 1 | 57.2% | +56.7% |
| SUN, CAITLYN MINGYUN | 1 | 63.5% | +11.9% |
| GOUGH, TIFFANY MAUREEN | 1 | 31.6% | +46.8% |
| TRAN, VIVIAN AILINH | 1 | 55.2% | +43.0% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 16245063 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ELECTROCHEMICAL CREATININE ASSAYS AND BLOOD UREA NITROGEN | GOUGH, TIFFANY MAUREEN | 6d |
| 15475719 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ELECTROCHEMICAL CREATININE ASSAYS | TRAN, VIVIAN AILINH | 12d |
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 4 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 16245063 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ELECTROCHEMICAL CREATININE ASSAYS AND BLOOD UREA NITROGEN | GOUGH, TIFFANY MAUREEN | 6d |
| 15475719 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ELECTROCHEMICAL CREATININE ASSAYS | TRAN, VIVIAN AILINH | 12d |
| 18051413 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR AN E-GATING FEATURE IN AN ELECTROCHEMICAL TEST STRIP | LYLE, SOPHIA YUAN | — |
| 16601433 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR POINT-OF-CARE DETECTION OF POTASSIUM | SUN, CAITLYN MINGYUN | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1796 | 1 |
| 1795 | 1 |
| 1651 | 1 |
| 1794 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18051413 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR AN E-GATING FEATURE IN AN ELECTROCHEMICAL TEST STRIP | LYLE, SOPHIA YUAN | 1796 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 31, 2022 |
| 16601433 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR POINT-OF-CARE DETECTION OF POTASSIUM | SUN, CAITLYN MINGYUN | 1795 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 14, 2019 |
| 16245063 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ELECTROCHEMICAL CREATININE ASSAYS AND BLOOD UREA NITROGEN | GOUGH, TIFFANY MAUREEN | 1651 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | 6d | Pending | Jan 10, 2019 |
| 15475719 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ELECTROCHEMICAL CREATININE ASSAYS | TRAN, VIVIAN AILINH | 1794 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 12d | Pending | Mar 31, 2017 |
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