Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
3 pending office actions • 3 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
SK Ieaveo Co. Ltd. maintains a company patent portfolio focused on the Chemistry & Materials technology area. The portfolio is currently active with 3 pending office actions. These actions are spread across 3 distinct art units, indicating that the company's research and development efforts span several different chemical or material classifications. This level of diversification across art units suggests a broad and varied patent strategy within the chemistry sector.
The prosecution is managed by 3 distinct examiners, ensuring that no single examiner has a majority influence over the pending applications. FANG, SHANE is identified as the busiest examiner, though this examiner is only responsible for 1 pending office action. Since there are 3 pending office actions in total, the workload is perfectly distributed among the 3 distinct examiners. For a practitioner, this distribution means that the company must adapt its arguments to the specific preferences of 3 distinct examiners. The lack of concentration in a single art unit or under a single examiner requires a versatile approach to prosecution.
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 (33%) |
| §102 only | 1 (33%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 1 (33%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FANG, SHANE | 1 | 76.6% | +18.5% |
| MANGOHIG, THOMAS A | 1 | 20.0% | +24.4% |
| DAVIDSON IV, CULLEN LEE GARRETT | 1 | 40.3% | +45.4% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18248873 | BIODEGRADABLE LAMINATED FILM AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING SAME | MANGOHIG, THOMAS A | 33d |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18248873 | BIODEGRADABLE LAMINATED FILM AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING SAME | MANGOHIG, THOMAS A | 33d |
| 18307019 | BIODEGRADABLE POLYESTER RESIN, PREPERATION METHOD THEREOF, AND BIODEGRADABLE POLYESTER FILM COMPRISING SAME | FANG, SHANE | — |
| 17824033 | BIODEGRADABLE POLYESTER RESIN, PREPERATION METHOD THEREOF, AND BIODEGRADABLE POLYESTER MOLDED ARTICLE COMPRISING THE SAME | DAVIDSON IV, CULLEN LEE GARRETT | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1766 | 1 |
| 1788 | 1 |
| 1767 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18307019 | BIODEGRADABLE POLYESTER RESIN, PREPERATION METHOD THEREOF, AND BIODEGRADABLE POLYESTER FILM COMPRISING SAME | FANG, SHANE | 1766 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 26, 2023 |
| 18248873 | BIODEGRADABLE LAMINATED FILM AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING SAME | MANGOHIG, THOMAS A | 1788 | §103 | Final Rejection | 33d | Pending | Apr 13, 2023 |
| 17824033 | BIODEGRADABLE POLYESTER RESIN, PREPERATION METHOD THEREOF, AND BIODEGRADABLE POLYESTER MOLDED ARTICLE COMPRISING THE SAME | DAVIDSON IV, CULLEN LEE GARRETT | 1767 | §103DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 25, 2022 |
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