Technology areas: Chemistry & Materials • Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Shenzhen Merit Technology Co. Ltd. has 2 pending office actions in the Chemistry & Materials technology area. These 2 actions are split between distinct examiners and distinct art units. This means that each of the company's active matters is being processed independently by different personnel in different sections of the USPTO.
WILL, KATHERINE A is the busiest examiner, holding 1 pending office action. With the distinct examiners each managing a portion of the pending office actions, the workload is distributed. This prevents any single examiner or art unit from having a consolidated impact on the company's current prosecution outcomes. For the practitioner, the presence of distinct art units for the cases suggests a diverse technical range. Success in these matters requires addressing the specific requirements of different examiners who may have very different approaches to the same technology area.
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 |
|---|---|
| Double-patenting + other | 1 (50%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| WILL, KATHERINE A | 1 | 67.4% | +20.1% |
| DYE, ROBERT C | 1 | 63.4% | +11.1% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18671512 | AEROSOL GENERATION ARTICLE AND AEROSOL GENERATION APPARATUS | DYE, ROBERT C | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18758664 | AEROSOL-FORMING ARTICLE WITH TIGHT SEGMENT | WILL, KATHERINE A | — |
| 18671512 | AEROSOL GENERATION ARTICLE AND AEROSOL GENERATION APPARATUS | DYE, ROBERT C | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1747 | 1 |
| 3619 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18758664 | AEROSOL-FORMING ARTICLE WITH TIGHT SEGMENT | WILL, KATHERINE A | 1747 | §102DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 28, 2024 |
| 18671512 | AEROSOL GENERATION ARTICLE AND AEROSOL GENERATION APPARATUS | DYE, ROBERT C | 3619 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 22, 2024 |
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Start Free TrialShenzhen Merit Technology Co. Ltd. has 2 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 2 art units and 2 examiners.
Katherine A Will has the most, with 1 of Shenzhen Merit Technology Co. Ltd.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Chemistry & Materials (USPTO Tech Center 1700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
