Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
10 pending office actions • 7 art units • 10 examiners • 0 of 10 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 8 patents granted in the last 365 days
SK Geo Centric Co. Ltd. has 10 pending office actions in Chemistry & Materials. The matters are assigned to 10 examiners and 7 art units, reflecting broad examiner coverage and a meaningful spread across technical examination groups.
ILLING, CAITLIN NORINE is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending matter. No examiner has multiple pending matters in the supplied data, so portfolio management should emphasize centralized docket oversight rather than a concentrated examiner strategy.
The 7-art-unit distribution supports organizing prosecution by technical issue and art-unit practice, while preserving matter-specific responses to each examiner.
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 | 3 (30%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 2 (20%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 4 (40%) |
| No statute on record | 1 (10%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ILLING, CAITLIN NORINE | 1 | 47.9% | +38.9% |
| NGUYEN, TAM M | 1 | 77.1% | +11.7% |
| LEE, RIP A | 1 | 83.5% | -4.0% |
| CHANDLER, KAITY V | 1 | 64.2% | +23.0% |
| ZOTOV, VLADIMIR VLADIMIROVIC | 1 | — | — |
| MCAVOY, ELLEN M | 1 | 72.9% | +8.9% |
| NGUYEN, CAM N | 1 | 84.8% | +12.3% |
| LENIHAN, JEFFREY S | 1 | 73.0% | +17.0% |
| HEINCER, LIAM J | 1 | 55.8% | +26.0% |
| SEIFU, LESSANEWORK T | 1 | 79.2% | +1.3% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18419979 | Method for Preparing Polyethylene Polymerization Catalyst | NGUYEN, CAM N | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18653986 | METHOD OF PREPARING EPDM COPOLYMER | LEE, RIP A | — |
| 18598537 | Method of Producing Ethylene-Carboxylic Acid Copolymer | ZOTOV, VLADIMIR VLADIMIROVIC | — |
| 18413181 | Polyethylene Manufacturing Process | LENIHAN, JEFFREY S | — |
| 18386653 | Ionomer Composition Containing Masterbatch and Glass Laminate Produced Using the Same | HEINCER, LIAM J | — |
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 6 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19024359 | Resin Composition Including Poly(Lactic-Co-Glycolic Acid) and Film Including the Same | ILLING, CAITLIN NORINE | — |
| 18922392 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PRODUCING REFINED HYDROCARBONS FROM WASTE PLASTICS | NGUYEN, TAM M | — |
| 18639291 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PRODUCING SYNGAS CONTAINING HYDROGEN FROM WASTE PLASTICS | CHANDLER, KAITY V | — |
| 18419979 | Method for Preparing Polyethylene Polymerization Catalyst | NGUYEN, CAM N | — |
| 18413181 | Polyethylene Manufacturing Process | LENIHAN, JEFFREY S | — |
| 18386653 | Ionomer Composition Containing Masterbatch and Glass Laminate Produced Using the Same | HEINCER, LIAM J | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1767 | 2 |
| 1771 | 2 |
| 1765 | 2 |
| 1762 | 1 |
| 1725 | 1 |
| 1736 | 1 |
| 1774 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19024359 | Resin Composition Including Poly(Lactic-Co-Glycolic Acid) and Film Including the Same | ILLING, CAITLIN NORINE | 1767 | §103§112DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 16, 2025 |
| 18922392 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PRODUCING REFINED HYDROCARBONS FROM WASTE PLASTICS | NGUYEN, TAM M | 1771 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 22, 2024 |
| 18653986 | METHOD OF PREPARING EPDM COPOLYMER | LEE, RIP A | 1762 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 03, 2024 |
| 18639291 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PRODUCING SYNGAS CONTAINING HYDROGEN FROM WASTE PLASTICS | CHANDLER, KAITY V | 1725 | §102§103§112DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 18, 2024 |
| 18598537 | Method of Producing Ethylene-Carboxylic Acid Copolymer | ZOTOV, VLADIMIR VLADIMIROVIC | 1765 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 07, 2024 |
| 18443305 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PRODUCING REFINED HYDROCARBONS FROM WASTE PLASTICS | MCAVOY, ELLEN M | 1771 | Other | Non-Final OA | 127d overdue | Pending | Feb 16, 2024 |
| 18419979 | Method for Preparing Polyethylene Polymerization Catalyst | NGUYEN, CAM N | 1736 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 23, 2024 |
| 18413181 | Polyethylene Manufacturing Process | LENIHAN, JEFFREY S | 1765 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 16, 2024 |
| 18386653 | Ionomer Composition Containing Masterbatch and Glass Laminate Produced Using the Same | HEINCER, LIAM J | 1767 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 03, 2023 |
| 18371800 | Process for Reducing Unsaturated Hydrocarbons in Aromatic Fraction Through Selective Hydrogenation | SEIFU, LESSANEWORK T | 1774 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 22, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialSK Geo Centric Co. Ltd. has 10 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 7 art units and 10 examiners.
Caitlin Norine Illing has the most, with 1 of SK Geo Centric Co. Ltd.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Chemistry & Materials (USPTO Tech Center 1700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
