Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Chemistry & Materials • Computing & Software • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
4 pending office actions • 4 art units • 4 examiners • 0 of 4 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Spp Technologies Co. Ltd. is managing 4 pending office actions within the Chemistry & Materials technology area. The data indicates a distributed workload, as there are 4 distinct examiners and 4 distinct art units involved for the 4 pending office actions. This means every pending office action is assigned to a different examiner and resides in a different art unit. Such a distribution requires a broad approach to prosecution strategy, as the 4 pending office actions are spread across multiple specialized groups within the patent office.
WORKU, KIDEST is identified as the busiest examiner for this company, though this individual is responsible for only 1 pending office action. Because each of the 4 pending office actions is with a different examiner, no single official has a dominant influence over the portfolio's current trajectory. The presence of 4 distinct art units for only 4 pending office actions suggests that the company's innovations cover a diverse range of technical sub-sectors. Practitioners must manage 4 different examiner relationships to address these 4 pending office actions.
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 | 3 (75%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (25%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| WORKU, KIDEST | 1 | 84.9% | +2.8% |
| DUCLAIR, STEPHANIE P. | 1 | 72.2% | +19.6% |
| MOORE, KARLA A | 1 | 43.1% | +14.0% |
| GATES, ERIC ANDREW | 1 | 78.8% | +14.5% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18579782 | Program, Information Processing Method, Information Processing Device and Model Generation Method | WORKU, KIDEST | 16d |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17429643 | METHOD OF IGNITING PLASMA AND PLASMA GENERATING SYSTEM | MOORE, KARLA A | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17923931 | PLASMA PROCESSING METHOD USING A MIXED PLASMA PROCESSING GAS OF C4F8 AND 2,3,3,3- TETRAFLUOROPROPENE | DUCLAIR, STEPHANIE P. | 12d |
| 17429643 | METHOD OF IGNITING PLASMA AND PLASMA GENERATING SYSTEM | MOORE, KARLA A | — |
| 17251859 | ABNORMALITY DETECTION APPARATUS | GATES, ERIC ANDREW | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2119 | 1 |
| 1713 | 1 |
| 1716 | 1 |
| 3722 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18579782 | Program, Information Processing Method, Information Processing Device and Model Generation Method | WORKU, KIDEST | 2119 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 16d | Pending | Jan 16, 2024 |
| 17923931 | PLASMA PROCESSING METHOD USING A MIXED PLASMA PROCESSING GAS OF C4F8 AND 2,3,3,3- TETRAFLUOROPROPENE | DUCLAIR, STEPHANIE P. | 1713 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 12d | Pending | Nov 08, 2022 |
| 17429643 | METHOD OF IGNITING PLASMA AND PLASMA GENERATING SYSTEM | MOORE, KARLA A | 1716 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Aug 10, 2021 |
| 17251859 | ABNORMALITY DETECTION APPARATUS | GATES, ERIC ANDREW | 3722 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 14, 2020 |
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