Technology areas: Chemistry & Materials • Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
SK Specialty Co. Ltd. currently manages 2 pending office actions within the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. This portfolio is distributed across 2 distinct examiners and 2 distinct art units, indicating a highly specific examination path where each examiner operates within a separate art unit. Such a distribution suggests that while the technology area is consistent, the specific patent applications may target different technical niches within that broader category. This requires a prosecution strategy that accounts for the unique requirements of two different supervisory groups within the USPTO.
The workload is evenly split among the assigned staff, as the busiest examiner, NGUYEN, CHI Q, is responsible for 1 pending office action. This 1 to 1 ratio between the busiest examiner's load and the total pending actions reflects a lack of examiner concentration. For practitioners, this means that prosecution strategies must be tailored to individual examiner preferences rather than a single primary contact. The presence of 2 distinct art units further confirms that the 2 pending office actions are likely facing different sets of internal guidelines or supervisory styles. Managing these 2 pending office actions involves navigating distinct administrative paths despite their shared technology area.
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 (50%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| NGUYEN, CHI Q | 1 | 82.4% | +12.4% |
| PIRO, NICHOLAS ANTHONY | 1 | 47.5% | +41.3% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18873737 | ATOMIC LAYER ETCHING METHOD FOR METAL OXIDE FILM | NGUYEN, CHI Q | — |
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 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18019021 | TRISILYLAMINE PREPARATION APPARATUS AND PREPARATION METHOD | PIRO, NICHOLAS ANTHONY | 46d overdue |
| 18873737 | ATOMIC LAYER ETCHING METHOD FOR METAL OXIDE FILM | NGUYEN, CHI Q | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3635 | 1 |
| 1738 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18873737 | ATOMIC LAYER ETCHING METHOD FOR METAL OXIDE FILM | NGUYEN, CHI Q | 3635 | §102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 11, 2024 |
| 18019021 | TRISILYLAMINE PREPARATION APPARATUS AND PREPARATION METHOD | PIRO, NICHOLAS ANTHONY | 1738 | §103 | Final Rejection | 46d overdue | Pending | Jan 31, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialSK Specialty Co. Ltd. has 2 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 2 art units and 2 examiners.
Chi Q Nguyen has the most, with 1 of SK Specialty Co. Ltd.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems (USPTO Tech Center 3600), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
