Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Chemistry & Materials • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 10 patents granted in the last 365 days
Thermwood Corporation currently has 4 pending office actions in the Chemistry & Materials technology area. This portfolio of 4 pending actions represents the company's active efforts to secure patent rights for its chemical and material innovations. The focus on Chemistry & Materials is a core component of the company's intellectual property strategy, reflecting its ongoing research and development in this specialized sector.
The prosecution is distributed among 4 distinct examiners and 4 distinct art units. Since there are 4 pending office actions and 4 distinct examiners, each case is being handled by a different individual at the patent office. The fact that there are also 4 distinct art units involved means that every single pending application is being reviewed in a different specialized department, requiring the company to navigate various departmental standards and guidelines.
AFZALI, SARANG is the busiest examiner for the portfolio, with 1 busiest examiner pending action. Because the busiest examiner pending count is 1 and there are 4 total pending office actions, the workload is evenly spread across all 4 distinct examiners. This highly distributed structure across 4 distinct art units requires the company to manage four different sets of examiner tendencies and departmental standards simultaneously to advance its patent objectives.
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 |
|---|---|
| Double-patenting only | 1 (50%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 1 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| AFZALI, SARANG | 1 | 73.4% | +44.6% |
| LEONG, NATHAN T | 1 | 71.4% | +24.1% |
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 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19573508 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR SECURE CONNECTIONS IN LAYER SEGMENTS OF CUT LAYER ADDITIVE PARTS | AFZALI, SARANG | — |
| 19390054 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR PROCESSING AND DISPENSING MATERIAL DURING ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING | LEONG, NATHAN T | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3726 | 1 |
| 1718 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19573508 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR SECURE CONNECTIONS IN LAYER SEGMENTS OF CUT LAYER ADDITIVE PARTS | AFZALI, SARANG | 3726 | §102§112DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 20, 2026 |
| 19390054 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR PROCESSING AND DISPENSING MATERIAL DURING ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING | LEONG, NATHAN T | 1718 | DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 14, 2025 |
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