Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Chemistry & Materials • Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 4 patents granted in the last 365 days
Protec Co. Ltd. has 2 pending office actions in the Chemistry & Materials technology area. These matters are being handled by 2 distinct examiners across 2 distinct art units. This distribution shows that each pending matter is being reviewed by a different examiner in a separate specialized group, requiring the company to manage two unique prosecution paths simultaneously. The lack of overlap in examiners or art units suggests a diverse range of chemistry technologies within the portfolio.
STONER, KILEY SHAWN is the busiest examiner for the portfolio, currently managing 1 busiest examiner pending action. Since there are 2 pending office actions and 2 distinct examiners, the workload is evenly distributed among the reviewers. The presence of 2 distinct art units for these actions indicates a diverse review environment within the chemistry sector. Practitioners should be prepared for varied feedback, as no two pending actions are being evaluated by the same individual or within the same art unit.
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%) |
| §112 only | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| STONER, KILEY SHAWN | 1 | 80.8% | +15.3% |
| WOLDEGEORGIS, ERMIAS T | 1 | 70.9% | +11.9% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19204580 | HEAD ASSEMBLY FOR MOUNTING CONDUCTIVE BALL | STONER, KILEY SHAWN | 71d |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19204580 | HEAD ASSEMBLY FOR MOUNTING CONDUCTIVE BALL | STONER, KILEY SHAWN | 71d |
| 18519056 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR FLIP CHIP LASER BONDING | WOLDEGEORGIS, ERMIAS T | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1735 | 1 |
| 2893 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19204580 | HEAD ASSEMBLY FOR MOUNTING CONDUCTIVE BALL | STONER, KILEY SHAWN | 1735 | §112 | Final Rejection | 71d | Pending | May 11, 2025 |
| 18519056 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR FLIP CHIP LASER BONDING | WOLDEGEORGIS, ERMIAS T | 2893 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 26, 2023 |
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