Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
1 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 3 patents granted in the last 365 days
Sf Diamond Co. Ltd. is currently addressing 1 pending office action within the Chemistry & Materials technology area. This matter is assigned to examiner HILL, STEPHANI A. The portfolio is concentrated under a single distinct examiner and a sole distinct art unit, indicating a very specific technical focus for the company's current patent activities.
HILL, STEPHANI A is the busiest examiner for the company with 1 pending office action. For the practitioner, this means prosecution is currently focused on an individual examiner relationship. This narrow focus requires a strategy tailored to the specific examination style and technical requirements of this examiner. Because there are no other active matters, the company's entire prosecution standing at the USPTO depends on the outcome of this single case. The practitioner must carefully monitor the procedural tendencies of the assigned art unit to ensure a favorable result.
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 |
|---|---|
| §112 only | 1 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| HILL, STEPHANI A | 1 | 29.2% | +44.0% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18424835 | POLYCRYSTALLINE DIAMOND COMPOSITE SHEET HAVING RIPPLE-SHAPED GRADIENT LAYER AND PREPARATION METHOD THEREOF | HILL, STEPHANI A | — |
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 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18424835 | POLYCRYSTALLINE DIAMOND COMPOSITE SHEET HAVING RIPPLE-SHAPED GRADIENT LAYER AND PREPARATION METHOD THEREOF | HILL, STEPHANI A | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1735 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18424835 | POLYCRYSTALLINE DIAMOND COMPOSITE SHEET HAVING RIPPLE-SHAPED GRADIENT LAYER AND PREPARATION METHOD THEREOF | HILL, STEPHANI A | 1735 | §112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jan 28, 2024 |
IP Author helps IP teams respond to office actions faster with AI-generated responses, examiner analytics, and prosecution intelligence.
Start Free TrialSf Diamond Co. Ltd. has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Stephani A Hill has the most, with 1 of Sf Diamond Co. Ltd.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Chemistry & Materials (USPTO Tech Center 1700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.