Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
1 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 2 patents granted in the last 365 days
Sm Lab Co. Ltd. has 1 pending office action in Chemistry & Materials. The matter is assigned to 1 examiner and 1 art unit, concentrating the current prosecution record.
HARRIS, MARY GRACE is the listed busiest examiner. Counsel can tailor its review to that examiner’s analysis and to the procedural expectations of the relevant art unit.
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 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| HARRIS, MARY GRACE | 1 | 69.3% | +29.1% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17780134 | POSITIVE ACTIVE MATERIAL, PREPARATION METHOD THEREFOR, AND LITHIUM SECONDARY BATTERY HAVING POSITIVE ELECTRODE COMPRISING SAME | HARRIS, MARY GRACE | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1729 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17780134 | POSITIVE ACTIVE MATERIAL, PREPARATION METHOD THEREFOR, AND LITHIUM SECONDARY BATTERY HAVING POSITIVE ELECTRODE COMPRISING SAME | HARRIS, MARY GRACE | 1729 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | May 26, 2022 |
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Start Free TrialSm Lab Co. Ltd. has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Mary Grace Harris has the most, with 1 of Sm Lab Co. Ltd.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Chemistry & Materials (USPTO Tech Center 1700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
