Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
4 pending office actions • 2 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 4 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 6 patents granted in the last 365 days
Sicrystal GmbH operates in the Chemistry & Materials technology area. The company has 5 pending office actions currently under review. These actions are distributed across 3 distinct art units, indicating a range of technical focuses within the materials sector. This spread across 3 distinct art units suggests that the company's innovation spans several specialized sub-fields, requiring a diverse approach to patent prosecution.
Prosecution involves 4 distinct examiners. SONG, MATTHEW J is the busiest examiner for the portfolio, managing 2 pending office actions. These 2 actions are part of the total 5 pending office actions currently active for the company. With 4 distinct examiners involved, the company's legal team must manage multiple simultaneous dialogues. The fact that SONG, MATTHEW J handles 2 pending office actions indicates a concentration of work with one individual, though the overall workload remains distributed across the examination corps.
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 |
|---|---|
| §103 only | 1 (25%) |
| §112 only | 1 (25%) |
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| SONG, MATTHEW J | 2 | 60.4% | +13.9% |
| BRATLAND JR, KENNETH A | 1 | 56.2% | +16.3% |
| MOUDOU, EILEEN QI-YUN | 1 | 50.0% | +0.0% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18598090 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR THE THERMAL POST-TREATMENT OF AT LEAST ONE SIC VOLUME MONOCRYSTAL | SONG, MATTHEW J | — |
| 18466184 | PRODUCTION METHOD FOR AN SIC VOLUME MONOCRYSTAL OF HOMOGENEOUS SCREW DISLOCATION DISTRIBUTION AND SIC SUBSTRATE | MOUDOU, EILEEN QI-YUN | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18581200 | Sublimation System And Method Of Growing At Least One Single Crystal | BRATLAND JR, KENNETH A | 39d |
| 18691364 | Method for Producing a Bulk SiC Single Crystal with Improved Quality Using a SiC Seed Crystal with a Temporary Protective Oxide Layer, and SiC Seed Crystal with Protective Oxide Layer | SONG, MATTHEW J | — |
| 18598090 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR THE THERMAL POST-TREATMENT OF AT LEAST ONE SIC VOLUME MONOCRYSTAL | SONG, MATTHEW J | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1714 | 3 |
| 1738 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18691364 | Method for Producing a Bulk SiC Single Crystal with Improved Quality Using a SiC Seed Crystal with a Temporary Protective Oxide Layer, and SiC Seed Crystal with Protective Oxide Layer | SONG, MATTHEW J | 1714 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 12, 2024 |
| 18598090 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR THE THERMAL POST-TREATMENT OF AT LEAST ONE SIC VOLUME MONOCRYSTAL | SONG, MATTHEW J | 1714 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 07, 2024 |
| 18581200 | Sublimation System And Method Of Growing At Least One Single Crystal | BRATLAND JR, KENNETH A | 1714 | §112 | Non-Final OA | 39d | Pending | Feb 19, 2024 |
| 18466184 | PRODUCTION METHOD FOR AN SIC VOLUME MONOCRYSTAL OF HOMOGENEOUS SCREW DISLOCATION DISTRIBUTION AND SIC SUBSTRATE | MOUDOU, EILEEN QI-YUN | 1738 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Sep 13, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialSicrystal GmbH has 4 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 2 art units and 3 examiners.
Matthew J Song has the most, with 2 of Sicrystal GmbH's pending office actions.
Mostly Chemistry & Materials (USPTO Tech Center 1700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
