Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 3 patents granted in the last 365 days
Solmics Co. Ltd. currently has 2 pending office actions within the Chemistry & Materials technology area. These 2 actions are being handled by 2 distinct examiners and are located in 2 distinct art units. This distribution shows that the company's current chemical and material filings are being reviewed independently by different people in different specialized groups at the USPTO, with no overlap in personnel or administrative units.
WIESE, NOAH S is identified as the busiest examiner for the portfolio, currently overseeing 1 pending office action. Because there are 2 pending office actions and 2 distinct examiners, each examiner is managing exactly 1 of the active cases. This means that the company's prosecution outcomes are currently split between the independent decisions of these 2 individuals, rather than being concentrated under a single examiner.
The involvement of 2 distinct art units for 2 pending office actions suggests that the company's technology is being evaluated under different specialized guidelines within the Chemistry & Materials field. For practitioners, this requires a strategy where each of the 2 pending office actions is prosecuted according to the specific requirements of its assigned examiner. The lack of concentration in examiners or art units means that success in 1 case may not directly influence the other.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 2 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 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| WIESE, NOAH S | 1 | 83.3% | -1.7% |
| FORD, NATHAN K | 1 | 32.8% | +35.4% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18468959 | SINTERED BODY AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING SINTERED BODY | WIESE, NOAH S | 26d |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18359953 | FOCUS RING AND PLASMA ETCHING APPARATUS COMPRISING THE SAME | FORD, NATHAN K | 39d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1731 | 1 |
| 1716 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18468959 | SINTERED BODY AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING SINTERED BODY | WIESE, NOAH S | 1731 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 26d | Pending | Sep 18, 2023 |
| 18359953 | FOCUS RING AND PLASMA ETCHING APPARATUS COMPRISING THE SAME | FORD, NATHAN K | 1716 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 39d | Pending | Jul 27, 2023 |
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