Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
11 pending office actions • 6 art units • 11 examiners • 0 of 11 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 12 patents granted in the last 365 days
Seurat Technologies Inc. is currently managing 12 pending office actions within the Chemistry & Materials technology area. These 12 actions are distributed across 11 distinct examiners and 6 distinct art units. This distribution shows that nearly every pending matter is being handled by a different individual at the patent office. The involvement of 6 distinct art units indicates that the company's innovations in Chemistry & Materials are technically diverse enough to be reviewed by several specialized groups.
JENNIFER LILA GROUX is the busiest examiner for this portfolio, holding 2 pending office actions. This concentration with JENNIFER LILA GROUX represents a small portion of the total workload, as 11 distinct examiners are involved overall. Managing these 12 pending office actions requires coordinating with many different patent office officials, each potentially bringing a different perspective to the prosecution. The spread across 6 distinct art units suggests that the company's patent strategy covers multiple specialized technical classifications within the broader chemistry field.
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 | 5 (45%) |
| §102 only | 1 (9%) |
| §112 only | 1 (9%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 4 (36%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| YE, XINWEN | 1 | 43.4% | +44.0% |
| BERNARD, ADRIEN J | 1 | 81.5% | +17.5% |
| MORENO HERNANDEZ, JERZI H | 1 | 73.1% | +15.4% |
| CHERRY, EUNCHA P | 1 | 88.1% | +9.4% |
| GROUX, JENNIFER LILA | 1 | 34.8% | +39.3% |
| REECE, CHRISTOPHER LANE | 1 | 88.6% | +15.0% |
| TAUFIQ, FARAH N | 1 | 61.6% | +25.2% |
| ROBINSON, MICHAEL | 1 | 62.0% | +20.6% |
| THROWER, LARRY W | 1 | 65.9% | +12.6% |
| CHOU, JIMMY | 1 | 71.0% | +14.9% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18762131 | Data Storage System Using a Light Valve System | REECE, CHRISTOPHER LANE | 22d overdue |
| 19048059 | Dynamic Optical Assembly For Laser-Based Additive Manufacturing | BERNARD, ADRIEN J | — |
| 18888821 | Electron Beam Patterning System in Additive Manufacturing | CHERRY, EUNCHA P | — |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 4 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18946603 | Chamber Systems For Additive Manufacturing | MORENO HERNANDEZ, JERZI H | — |
| 18819349 | Light Valve System with Gap Maintenance System | GROUX, JENNIFER LILA | — |
| 18515558 | Oligomer Stabilized Liquid Crystal Light Valve | THROWER, LARRY W | — |
| 18495223 | Laser Beam Shaping and Patterning for Manufacturing | CHOU, JIMMY | — |
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 8 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18620164 | Light Recycling For Additive Manufacturing Optimization | TAUFIQ, FARAH N | 32d overdue |
| 18419847 | RECYCLING POWDERED MATERIAL FOR ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING | ROBINSON, MICHAEL | 25d overdue |
| 18762131 | Data Storage System Using a Light Valve System | REECE, CHRISTOPHER LANE | 22d overdue |
| 19098659 | Thermal Compensation for Laser Energy Delivery for Additive Manufacturing | YE, XINWEN | — |
| 19048059 | Dynamic Optical Assembly For Laser-Based Additive Manufacturing | BERNARD, ADRIEN J | — |
| 18946603 | Chamber Systems For Additive Manufacturing | MORENO HERNANDEZ, JERZI H | — |
| 18819349 | Light Valve System with Gap Maintenance System | GROUX, JENNIFER LILA | — |
| 18515558 | Oligomer Stabilized Liquid Crystal Light Valve | THROWER, LARRY W | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1754 | 3 |
| 1741 | 1 |
| 1743 | 1 |
| 2824 | 1 |
| 1744 | 1 |
| 3761 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19098659 | Thermal Compensation for Laser Energy Delivery for Additive Manufacturing | YE, XINWEN | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 02, 2025 |
| 19048059 | Dynamic Optical Assembly For Laser-Based Additive Manufacturing | BERNARD, ADRIEN J | 1741 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 07, 2025 |
| 18946603 | Chamber Systems For Additive Manufacturing | MORENO HERNANDEZ, JERZI H | 1743 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Nov 13, 2024 |
| 18888821 | Electron Beam Patterning System in Additive Manufacturing | CHERRY, EUNCHA P | — | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 18, 2024 |
| 18819349 | Light Valve System with Gap Maintenance System | GROUX, JENNIFER LILA | 1754 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Aug 29, 2024 |
| 18762131 | Data Storage System Using a Light Valve System | REECE, CHRISTOPHER LANE | 2824 | §102 | Non-Final OA | 22d overdue | Pending | Jul 02, 2024 |
| 18620164 | Light Recycling For Additive Manufacturing Optimization | TAUFIQ, FARAH N | 1754 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 32d overdue | Pending | Mar 28, 2024 |
| 18419847 | RECYCLING POWDERED MATERIAL FOR ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING | ROBINSON, MICHAEL | 1744 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 25d overdue | Pending | Jan 23, 2024 |
| 18515558 | Oligomer Stabilized Liquid Crystal Light Valve | THROWER, LARRY W | 1754 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Nov 21, 2023 |
| 18495223 | Laser Beam Shaping and Patterning for Manufacturing | CHOU, JIMMY | — | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 26, 2023 |
| 17670149 | Phase Managed Additive Printing System | CHEN, SIMPSON ABRAHAM | 3761 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 11, 2022 |
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