Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Chemistry & Materials • Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics
8 pending office actions • 5 art units • 8 examiners • 0 of 8 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 11 patents granted in the last 365 days
Tes Co. Ltd. is managing 8 pending office actions within the Chemistry & Materials technology area. These actions are distributed among 8 distinct examiners, which shows that the workload is spread across many individuals. This distribution of 8 distinct examiners for 8 pending office actions suggests that the company's portfolio is subject to a variety of individual examination styles. Practitioners must be prepared to navigate these different perspectives, as the 8 pending office actions are spread widely across the examining corps.
The portfolio spans 5 distinct art units, indicating that the company's chemistry and materials innovations are categorized into several different technical sub-specialties. Chi Q Nguyen is the busiest examiner for this portfolio, currently overseeing 1 pending office action. This highlights that even the most active examiner for Tes Co. Ltd. only holds a small fraction of the total pending actions. The presence of 5 distinct art units suggests that the subject matter is technically diverse and requires specialized review from multiple administrative groups.
Navigating 5 distinct art units with 8 distinct examiners suggests a complex prosecution landscape. The high number of examiners relative to the pending office actions means that the company must maintain a flexible strategy to address the diverse technical perspectives found across these multiple administrative divisions. Practitioners should focus on maintaining consistency in their arguments across the 5 distinct art units while addressing the 1 pending office action under Chi Q Nguyen and the other seven matters individually.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 1 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 (38%) |
| §112 only | 1 (12%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 4 (50%) |
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% |
| WEDDLE, ALEXANDER MARION | 1 | 63.6% | +25.6% |
| ROLLAND, ALEX A | 1 | 47.9% | +26.6% |
| CHEN, KEATH T | 1 | 30.2% | +24.7% |
| LAW, NGA LEUNG V | 1 | 56.7% | +20.7% |
| THOMAS, BINU | 1 | 72.7% | +26.5% |
| TADESSE, YEWEBDAR T | 1 | 81.4% | +19.2% |
| GAMBETTA, KELLY M | 1 | 71.8% | +33.1% |
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 4 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19002207 | METHOD FOR FORMING HYDROGEN-CONTAINING CARBON FILM USING PECVD | WEDDLE, ALEXANDER MARION | — |
| 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 |
| 19002777 | SUBSTRATE PROCESSING METHOD | NGUYEN, CHI Q | — |
| 19002207 | METHOD FOR FORMING HYDROGEN-CONTAINING CARBON FILM USING PECVD | WEDDLE, ALEXANDER MARION | — |
| 18815854 | SUBSTRATE PROCESSING APPARATUS | CHEN, KEATH T | — |
| 18641406 | SUBSTRATE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND SUBSTRATE PROCESSING METHOD | LAW, NGA LEUNG V | — |
| 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 | — |
| 18127505 | MASK PROCESSING METHOD AND APPARATUS | GAMBETTA, KELLY M | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1712 | 1 |
| 1759 | 1 |
| 1716 | 1 |
| 2818 | 1 |
| 1718 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19002777 | SUBSTRATE PROCESSING METHOD | NGUYEN, CHI Q | — | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 27, 2024 |
| 19002207 | METHOD FOR FORMING HYDROGEN-CONTAINING CARBON FILM USING PECVD | WEDDLE, ALEXANDER MARION | 1712 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Dec 26, 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 |
| 18641406 | SUBSTRATE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND SUBSTRATE PROCESSING METHOD | LAW, NGA LEUNG V | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 21, 2024 |
| 18600750 | SUBSTRATE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND GAS SUPPLY METHOD THEREOF | THOMAS, BINU | — | §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 |
| 18127505 | MASK PROCESSING METHOD AND APPARATUS | GAMBETTA, KELLY M | 1718 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Mar 28, 2023 |
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