Technology areas: Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals • Chemistry & Materials
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
SK Energy Co. Ltd. has 2 pending office actions within the Chemistry & Materials technology area. These matters are assigned to 2 distinct examiners, indicating no overlap in the personnel reviewing the company's current applications. This distribution requires managing the different sets of examiner expectations and ensures that the progress of the portfolio is not reliant on a specific official's discretion. Such a strategy can lead to a more diverse and robust patent portfolio by incorporating feedback from multiple examiners with different technical perspectives.
The portfolio is active in distinct art units, reflecting a variety of technical focuses within the company's chemical innovations. BUCHANAN, JACOB, is the busiest examiner, currently overseeing 1 pending office action. The prosecution strategy must remain flexible to address the unique requirements of each examiner involved. Practitioners should carefully coordinate the responses across these different matters to maintain consistency in the company's technical disclosures and to ensure that all legal positions are aligned across the portfolio.
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 |
|---|---|
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| BUCHANAN, JACOB | 1 | 56.1% | +44.7% |
| PARSA, JAFAR F | 1 | 87.3% | +8.9% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18426538 | System for Generating Electricity and Hydrogen | BUCHANAN, JACOB | — |
| 18534048 | SYNTHETIC FUEL AND PRODUCTION METHOD THEREOF | PARSA, JAFAR F | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18426538 | System for Generating Electricity and Hydrogen | BUCHANAN, JACOB | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1725 | 1 |
| 1692 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18426538 | System for Generating Electricity and Hydrogen | BUCHANAN, JACOB | 1725 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 30, 2024 |
| 18534048 | SYNTHETIC FUEL AND PRODUCTION METHOD THEREOF | PARSA, JAFAR F | 1692 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 08, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialSK Energy Co. Ltd. has 2 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 2 art units and 2 examiners.
Jacob Buchanan has the most, with 1 of SK Energy Co. Ltd.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Chemistry & Materials (USPTO Tech Center 1700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
