Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Progressive Components International Corporation has 2 pending office actions in Chemistry & Materials. The matters are assigned to 2 distinct examiners and 2 distinct art units. LUK, EMMANUEL S is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending matter, so the portfolio has separate examination channels for its pending activity.
Counsel should coordinate chemistry and materials terminology across the responses while addressing each examiner’s record independently. A shared review of claim scope and specification support can reduce inconsistency, but the distinct art-unit assignments make direct application-level analysis necessary. The available data supports a focused two-matter docket strategy rather than reliance on a single examiner relationship.
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 | 1 (50%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| LUK, EMMANUEL S | 1 | 71.5% | +26.3% |
| MELENDEZ, ARMAND | 1 | 46.1% | +43.1% |
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.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18368351 | SPACER WASHER FOR USE WITH INJECTION MOLD | MELENDEZ, ARMAND | 38d overdue |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18368351 | SPACER WASHER FOR USE WITH INJECTION MOLD | MELENDEZ, ARMAND | 38d overdue |
| 18655476 | GATE INSERT FOR INJECTION MOLDING | LUK, EMMANUEL S | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1744 | 1 |
| 1759 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18655476 | GATE INSERT FOR INJECTION MOLDING | LUK, EMMANUEL S | 1744 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | May 06, 2024 |
| 18368351 | SPACER WASHER FOR USE WITH INJECTION MOLD | MELENDEZ, ARMAND | 1759 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | 38d overdue | Pending | Sep 14, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialProgressive Components International Corporation has 2 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 2 art units and 2 examiners.
Emmanuel S Luk has the most, with 1 of Progressive Components International Corporation's pending office actions.
Mostly Chemistry & Materials (USPTO Tech Center 1700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
