Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
4 pending office actions • 2 art units • 4 examiners • 0 of 4 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 7 patents granted in the last 365 days
Psk Inc. manages a company patent portfolio within the Chemistry & Materials technology area. The portfolio currently contains 4 pending office actions. These actions are distributed across 2 distinct art units, which indicates that the company's research and development efforts are spanning multiple technical sub-specialties within the broader chemistry field. For practitioners, this diversification across 2 art units means that the portfolio is subject to different sets of technical classification standards and examination guidelines.
The prosecution of these matters is handled by 4 distinct examiners, providing a wide range of examiner perspectives on the company's applications. REMAVEGE, CHRISTOPHER is the busiest examiner for the portfolio, holding 1 busiest examiner pending action. This means that the workload is evenly split among the 4 examiners, with each responsible for 1 of the 4 pending office actions. For the applicant, this distribution across 4 examiners and 2 art units means they must manage four separate prosecution tracks, each with its own set of examiner expectations and technical standards. This arrangement provides the company with a high degree of variety in examiner feedback, reducing the risk of the entire portfolio being impacted by a single official's preferences.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 3 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.
Every pending office action with a known statutory deadline, placed on a days-until-due axis. Dots left of Today are overdue; the further right, the more runway. Cases that share a deadline window stack vertically. 3 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.
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 | 4 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| REMAVEGE, CHRISTOPHER | 1 | 58.4% | +26.0% |
| CHEN, KEATH T | 1 | 30.2% | +24.7% |
| CROWELL, ANNA M | 1 | 44.6% | +30.5% |
| NUCKOLS, TIFFANY Z | 1 | 45.5% | +40.1% |
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 4 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18026528 | UPPER ELECTRODE UNIT AND SUBSTRATE PROCESSING APPARATUS INCLUDING THE SAME | NUCKOLS, TIFFANY Z | 45d overdue |
| 18462386 | METHOD FOR PROCESSING SUBSTRATE | REMAVEGE, CHRISTOPHER | 2d overdue |
| 18278678 | LOAD LOCK CHAMBER AND APPARATUS FOR TREATING SUBSTRATE | CHEN, KEATH T | 30d |
| 18352506 | APPARATUS FOR TREATING SUBSTRATE | CROWELL, ANNA M | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1716 | 3 |
| 1713 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18462386 | METHOD FOR PROCESSING SUBSTRATE | REMAVEGE, CHRISTOPHER | 1713 | §103 | Final Rejection | 2d overdue | Pending | Sep 06, 2023 |
| 18278678 | LOAD LOCK CHAMBER AND APPARATUS FOR TREATING SUBSTRATE | CHEN, KEATH T | 1716 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 30d | Pending | Aug 24, 2023 |
| 18352506 | APPARATUS FOR TREATING SUBSTRATE | CROWELL, ANNA M | 1716 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jul 14, 2023 |
| 18026528 | UPPER ELECTRODE UNIT AND SUBSTRATE PROCESSING APPARATUS INCLUDING THE SAME | NUCKOLS, TIFFANY Z | 1716 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 45d overdue | Pending | Mar 15, 2023 |
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