Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
9 pending office actions • 7 art units • 9 examiners • 0 of 9 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 9 patents granted in the last 365 days
Tes Co. Ltd. has 9 pending office actions in Chemistry & Materials. The matters are assigned to 9 distinct examiners across 7 distinct art units, showing a dispersed examiner structure with some recurring art-unit coverage.
NGUYEN, CHI Q is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending matter. The profile favors individualized examiner review, supplemented by coordination on issues that may recur within the art units.
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 (33%) |
| §102 only | 2 (22%) |
| §112 only | 1 (11%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 3 (33%) |
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% |
| ROLLAND, ALEX A | 1 | 47.7% | +27.0% |
| CHEN, KEATH T | 1 | 30.2% | +24.7% |
| LAU, JASON | 1 | 54.1% | +15.9% |
| MOORE, KARLA A | 1 | 43.1% | +13.6% |
| THOMAS, BINU | 1 | 72.9% | +26.5% |
| TADESSE, YEWEBDAR T | 1 | 81.4% | +19.1% |
| CROWELL, ANNA M | 1 | 44.5% | +30.6% |
| GAMBETTA, KELLY M | 1 | 71.8% | +33.0% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19002777 | SUBSTRATE PROCESSING METHOD | NGUYEN, CHI Q | — |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18815854 | SUBSTRATE PROCESSING APPARATUS | CHEN, KEATH T | — |
| 18600750 | SUBSTRATE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND GAS SUPPLY METHOD THEREOF | THOMAS, BINU | — |
| 18519091 | PROCESS DETECTING UNIT, SUBSTRATE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND SUBSTRATE PROCESS MONITORING METHOD | TADESSE, YEWEBDAR T | — |
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 8 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18915404 | METHOD FOR PROCESSING SUBSTRATE | ROLLAND, ALEX A | 78d overdue |
| 18283810 | METAL ORGANIC CHEMICAL VAPOR DEPOSITION APPARATUS | CROWELL, ANNA M | 63d |
| 19002777 | SUBSTRATE PROCESSING METHOD | NGUYEN, CHI Q | — |
| 18815854 | SUBSTRATE PROCESSING APPARATUS | CHEN, KEATH T | — |
| 18738070 | SUBSTRATE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND SUBSTRATE PROCESSING METHOD | LAU, JASON | — |
| 18608937 | GAS BAFFLE AND SUBSTRATE PROCESSING APPARATUS | MOORE, KARLA A | — |
| 18600750 | SUBSTRATE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND GAS SUPPLY METHOD THEREOF | THOMAS, BINU | — |
| 18519091 | PROCESS DETECTING UNIT, SUBSTRATE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND SUBSTRATE PROCESS MONITORING METHOD | TADESSE, YEWEBDAR T | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1716 | 3 |
| 3635 | 1 |
| 1759 | 1 |
| 3762 | 1 |
| 1717 | 1 |
| 2818 | 1 |
| 1718 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19002777 | SUBSTRATE PROCESSING METHOD | NGUYEN, CHI Q | 3635 | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 27, 2024 |
| 18915404 | METHOD FOR PROCESSING SUBSTRATE | ROLLAND, ALEX A | 1759 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 78d overdue | Pending | Oct 15, 2024 |
| 18815854 | SUBSTRATE PROCESSING APPARATUS | CHEN, KEATH T | 1716 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Aug 27, 2024 |
| 18738070 | SUBSTRATE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND SUBSTRATE PROCESSING METHOD | LAU, JASON | 3762 | §102Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 10, 2024 |
| 18608937 | GAS BAFFLE AND SUBSTRATE PROCESSING APPARATUS | MOORE, KARLA A | 1716 | §102 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Mar 19, 2024 |
| 18600750 | SUBSTRATE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND GAS SUPPLY METHOD THEREOF | THOMAS, BINU | 1717 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 10, 2024 |
| 18519091 | PROCESS DETECTING UNIT, SUBSTRATE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND SUBSTRATE PROCESS MONITORING METHOD | TADESSE, YEWEBDAR T | 2818 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 27, 2023 |
| 18283810 | METAL ORGANIC CHEMICAL VAPOR DEPOSITION APPARATUS | CROWELL, ANNA M | 1716 | §103 | Final Rejection | 63d | Pending | Sep 24, 2023 |
| 18127505 | MASK PROCESSING METHOD AND APPARATUS | GAMBETTA, KELLY M | 1718 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Mar 28, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialTes Co. Ltd. has 9 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 7 art units and 9 examiners.
Chi Q Nguyen has the most, with 1 of Tes Co. Ltd.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Chemistry & Materials (USPTO Tech Center 1700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
