Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
4 pending office actions • 2 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 4 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 5 patents granted in the last 365 days
SK Microworks Co. Ltd. has 5 pending office actions in Chemistry & Materials. The actions involve 4 distinct examiners and 3 distinct art units, reflecting a portfolio that is distributed across several examination assignments but includes some examiner or art-unit overlap.
FROST, ANTHONY J is the busiest examiner, with 2 pending matters. That concentration makes the examiner's treatment of claim scope and evidence particularly relevant to portfolio coordination. Counsel should also account for the separate art-unit settings when evaluating whether a common response position is appropriate.
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 | 2 (50%) |
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FROST, ANTHONY J | 2 | 52.6% | +20.2% |
| KRUER, KEVIN R | 1 | 26.6% | +29.5% |
| CHEN, VIVIAN | 1 | 56.6% | +28.5% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18550460 | BIAXIALLY STRETCHED FILM, LAMINATE, AND ECO-FRIENDLY PACKAGING MATERIAL COMPRISING FILM | CHEN, VIVIAN | 28d |
| 18976348 | BIODEGRADABLE BIAXIALLY ORIENTED FILM, PREPERATION METHOD THEREOF, AND ENVIRONMENT-FRIENDLY PACKING MATERIAL COMPRISING THE SAME | KRUER, KEVIN R | — |
| 18495751 | POLYAMIDE-IMIDE-BASED FILM, PROCESS FOR PREPARING THE SAME, AND COVER WINDOW AND DISPLAY DEVICE COMPRISING THE SAME | FROST, ANTHONY 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 4 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18550460 | BIAXIALLY STRETCHED FILM, LAMINATE, AND ECO-FRIENDLY PACKAGING MATERIAL COMPRISING FILM | CHEN, VIVIAN | 28d |
| 18976348 | BIODEGRADABLE BIAXIALLY ORIENTED FILM, PREPERATION METHOD THEREOF, AND ENVIRONMENT-FRIENDLY PACKING MATERIAL COMPRISING THE SAME | KRUER, KEVIN R | — |
| 18292930 | LAMINATED FILM HAVING IMPROVED SURFACE HARDNESS AND RESTORATION PROPERTIES AND DISPLAY DEVICE COMPRISING SAME | FROST, ANTHONY J | — |
| 18495751 | POLYAMIDE-IMIDE-BASED FILM, PROCESS FOR PREPARING THE SAME, AND COVER WINDOW AND DISPLAY DEVICE COMPRISING THE SAME | FROST, ANTHONY J | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1787 | 2 |
| 1782 | 2 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18976348 | BIODEGRADABLE BIAXIALLY ORIENTED FILM, PREPERATION METHOD THEREOF, AND ENVIRONMENT-FRIENDLY PACKING MATERIAL COMPRISING THE SAME | KRUER, KEVIN R | 1787 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 11, 2024 |
| 18292930 | LAMINATED FILM HAVING IMPROVED SURFACE HARDNESS AND RESTORATION PROPERTIES AND DISPLAY DEVICE COMPRISING SAME | FROST, ANTHONY J | 1782 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jan 29, 2024 |
| 18495751 | POLYAMIDE-IMIDE-BASED FILM, PROCESS FOR PREPARING THE SAME, AND COVER WINDOW AND DISPLAY DEVICE COMPRISING THE SAME | FROST, ANTHONY J | 1782 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 27, 2023 |
| 18550460 | BIAXIALLY STRETCHED FILM, LAMINATE, AND ECO-FRIENDLY PACKAGING MATERIAL COMPRISING FILM | CHEN, VIVIAN | 1787 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 28d | Pending | Sep 14, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialSK Microworks Co. Ltd. has 4 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 2 art units and 3 examiners.
Anthony J Frost has the most, with 2 of SK Microworks Co. Ltd.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Chemistry & Materials (USPTO Tech Center 1700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
