Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
1 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Tcm Research Ltd. has 1 pending office action in the Chemistry & Materials technology area. This action is located within 1 distinct art unit, indicating a specific area of technical review for the company's current filings. The prosecution involves 1 distinct examiner, KLUNK, MARGARET D, who is assigned to the pending matter. This concentration in 1 distinct art unit allows for a specialized legal approach tailored to specific technical standards.
KLUNK, MARGARET D is the busiest examiner for this portfolio, managing 1 pending office action. As the company has only 1 pending office action, this examiner oversees the entire current pending workload. The presence of 1 distinct examiner suggests a focused prosecution environment. Practitioners can dedicate their efforts to addressing the specific concerns of KLUNK, MARGARET D and the technical standards of the assigned art unit to move the application forward.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| KLUNK, MARGARET D | 1 | 44.0% | +31.5% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18023814 | ADDITIVE CHEMICAL VAPOR DEPOSITION METHODS AND SYSTEMS | KLUNK, MARGARET D | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1716 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18023814 | ADDITIVE CHEMICAL VAPOR DEPOSITION METHODS AND SYSTEMS | KLUNK, MARGARET D | 1716 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 28, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialTcm Research Ltd. has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Margaret D Klunk has the most, with 1 of Tcm Research Ltd.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Chemistry & Materials (USPTO Tech Center 1700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
