Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Chemistry & Materials • Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics • Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
6 pending office actions • 4 art units • 6 examiners • 0 of 6 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 10 patents granted in the last 365 days
Shine Technologies LLC has 5 pending office actions in the Chemistry & Materials technology area. The prosecution is distributed across 3 distinct art units and involves 5 distinct examiners. This alignment of pending office actions and distinct examiners indicates that no examiner is currently handling more than a single matter for the company. KAO, CHIH CHENG G is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending office action assigned.
The presence of 5 distinct examiners across 3 distinct art units suggests a broad but specialized review of the company's Chemistry & Materials innovations. Because each of the 5 pending office actions is assigned to a different individual, the company must navigate five separate sets of examiner expectations. However, the concentration within 3 distinct art units implies some level of technical overlap, which may allow for shared insights across the different prosecution paths.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 1 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 |
|---|---|
| §112 only | 2 (33%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 4 (67%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| KAO, CHIH CHENG G | 1 | 82.6% | +9.5% |
| WILLIAMS, JOSEPH L | 1 | 82.8% | +15.2% |
| WASIL, DANIEL D | 1 | 79.9% | +24.7% |
| WANG, JING | 1 | 100.0% | +0.0% |
| PULLEN, NIKOLAS TAKUYA | 1 | 52.5% | +8.4% |
| FUNG, CHING-YIU | 1 | 32.4% | +20.8% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18984183 | GAS JET DEFLECTION IN PRESSURIZED SYSTEMS | WILLIAMS, JOSEPH L | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18504730 | SEPARATION OF RARE EARTH ELEMENTS | PULLEN, NIKOLAS TAKUYA | 34d |
| 19113074 | DUAL SCINTILLATOR SYSTEM FOR NEUTRON AND ELECTROMAGNETIC IMAGING | KAO, CHIH CHENG G | — |
| 18761704 | HIGH POWER ION BEAM GENERATOR SYSTEMS AND METHODS | WASIL, DANIEL D | — |
| 18645058 | Radiation Effects Testing System with a Beam Accelerator | WANG, JING | — |
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 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18984183 | GAS JET DEFLECTION IN PRESSURIZED SYSTEMS | WILLIAMS, JOSEPH L | — |
| 18761704 | HIGH POWER ION BEAM GENERATOR SYSTEMS AND METHODS | WASIL, DANIEL D | — |
| 17841423 | Metal Ion Separation Technique Using pH Adjustment And Resin Packed Columns | FUNG, CHING-YIU | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2884 | 1 |
| 3646 | 1 |
| 1733 | 1 |
| 1732 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19113074 | DUAL SCINTILLATOR SYSTEM FOR NEUTRON AND ELECTROMAGNETIC IMAGING | KAO, CHIH CHENG G | 2884 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 19, 2025 |
| 18984183 | GAS JET DEFLECTION IN PRESSURIZED SYSTEMS | WILLIAMS, JOSEPH L | — | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 17, 2024 |
| 18761704 | HIGH POWER ION BEAM GENERATOR SYSTEMS AND METHODS | WASIL, DANIEL D | — | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 02, 2024 |
| 18645058 | Radiation Effects Testing System with a Beam Accelerator | WANG, JING | 3646 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 24, 2024 |
| 18504730 | SEPARATION OF RARE EARTH ELEMENTS | PULLEN, NIKOLAS TAKUYA | 1733 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 34d | Pending | Nov 08, 2023 |
| 17841423 | Metal Ion Separation Technique Using pH Adjustment And Resin Packed Columns | FUNG, CHING-YIU | 1732 | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 15, 2022 |
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