Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
4 pending office actions • 4 art units • 4 examiners • 0 of 4 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 6 patents granted in the last 365 days
San Fang Chemical Industry Co., Ltd. maintains a distributed patent prosecution profile within the Chemistry & Materials technology area. The company currently has 4 pending office actions, which are spread across 4 distinct art units. This indicates that the company's chemical innovations are being evaluated by multiple specialized groups within the USPTO's chemistry divisions, reflecting a broad technical reach. The use of 4 distinct art units suggests that the portfolio's technical scope is diverse and covers multiple chemical sub-specialties.
The prosecution of these applications is handled by 4 distinct examiners, with each examiner managing a single active matter. WILLIAMS, CEDRICK S is the busiest examiner, holding 1 busiest examiner pending office action. This decentralized structure means that the company must interact with 4 distinct examiners, each with their own examination style and technical focus. Managing 4 pending office actions in this manner requires a coordinated effort to ensure that the company's intellectual property strategy remains consistent across the portfolio.
Practitioners must tailor their responses to the specific requirements of 4 distinct examiners while navigating the nuances of four different technical groups. This distribution within the Chemistry & Materials sector provides the company with a broad exposure to USPTO examination practices. With 1 busiest examiner pending for WILLIAMS, CEDRICK S, the workload is evenly spread across the assigned staff. This lack of concentration across the 4 distinct art units involved requires a multifaceted approach to the company's current patent prosecution cycle.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| WILLIAMS, CEDRICK S | 1 | 60.0% | +26.4% |
| ZHANG, MICHAEL N | 1 | 54.5% | +22.5% |
| WU, ANDREA | 1 | 68.1% | +21.3% |
| DILLON, DANIEL P | 1 | 26.3% | +30.7% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18781247 | COMPOSITE MATERIAL AND MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREOF | WILLIAMS, CEDRICK S | 60d overdue |
| 18545292 | WASHABLE CONDUCTIVE INK | WU, ANDREA | — |
| 18047575 | ELASTIC HOT GLUE HAVING LOW PROCESSING TEMPERATURE CAPABILITY | DILLON, DANIEL P | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18781247 | COMPOSITE MATERIAL AND MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREOF | WILLIAMS, CEDRICK S | 60d overdue |
| 18611063 | ARTIFICIAL LEATHER AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING THE SAME | ZHANG, MICHAEL N | 82d |
| 18545292 | WASHABLE CONDUCTIVE INK | WU, ANDREA | — |
| 18047575 | ELASTIC HOT GLUE HAVING LOW PROCESSING TEMPERATURE CAPABILITY | DILLON, DANIEL P | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1749 | 1 |
| 1781 | 1 |
| 1763 | 1 |
| 1783 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18781247 | COMPOSITE MATERIAL AND MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREOF | WILLIAMS, CEDRICK S | 1749 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | 60d overdue | Pending | Jul 23, 2024 |
| 18611063 | ARTIFICIAL LEATHER AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING THE SAME | ZHANG, MICHAEL N | 1781 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 82d | Pending | Mar 20, 2024 |
| 18545292 | WASHABLE CONDUCTIVE INK | WU, ANDREA | 1763 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 19, 2023 |
| 18047575 | ELASTIC HOT GLUE HAVING LOW PROCESSING TEMPERATURE CAPABILITY | DILLON, DANIEL P | 1783 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Oct 18, 2022 |
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Start Free TrialSan Fang Chemical Industry Co., Ltd. has 4 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 4 art units and 4 examiners.
Cedrick S Williams has the most, with 1 of San Fang Chemical Industry Co., Ltd.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Chemistry & Materials (USPTO Tech Center 1700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
