Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
3 pending office actions • 2 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Tricoya Technologies Ltd currently manages 3 pending office actions within the Chemistry & Materials technology area. These 3 actions are assigned to 3 distinct examiners, indicating a diverse range of individual reviews for the company's applications. Despite having 3 examiners, the work is contained within 2 distinct art units, suggesting some overlap in the technical classification of the underlying inventions. The busiest examiner for the portfolio is KITT, STEPHEN A, who is responsible for 1 pending office action.
Since the busiest examiner pending count is 1 and there are 3 pending office actions in total, the workload is balanced among the 3 distinct examiners. This distribution across 2 distinct art units means that the company must manage different procedural expectations even within the same broad technology area. Practitioners can expect that the prosecution strategy will need to be tailored to three different individual examiner styles while addressing the specific standards of the 2 art units involved. Each of the 3 pending office actions represents a separate opportunity for claim allowance.
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 | 1 (33%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (67%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| KITT, STEPHEN A | 1 | 54.7% | +38.8% |
| EMPIE, NATHAN H | 1 | 43.4% | +43.3% |
| WIECZOREK, MICHAEL P | 1 | 55.4% | +16.8% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17656486 | METHOD FOR THE ACETYLATION OF WOOD | EMPIE, NATHAN H | 92d overdue |
| 17046857 | Acetylated Wood and Method of Making Same | WIECZOREK, MICHAEL P | 5d overdue |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17656486 | METHOD FOR THE ACETYLATION OF WOOD | EMPIE, NATHAN H | 92d overdue |
| 17046857 | Acetylated Wood and Method of Making Same | WIECZOREK, MICHAEL P | 5d overdue |
| 18197958 | COOLING ACETYLATED WOOD ELEMENTS | KITT, STEPHEN A | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1712 | 2 |
| 1717 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18197958 | COOLING ACETYLATED WOOD ELEMENTS | KITT, STEPHEN A | 1717 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 16, 2023 |
| 17656486 | METHOD FOR THE ACETYLATION OF WOOD | EMPIE, NATHAN H | 1712 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | 92d overdue | Pending | Mar 25, 2022 |
| 17046857 | Acetylated Wood and Method of Making Same | WIECZOREK, MICHAEL P | 1712 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | 5d overdue | Pending | Oct 12, 2020 |
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Start Free TrialTricoya Technologies Ltd has 3 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 2 art units and 3 examiners.
Stephen A Kitt has the most, with 1 of Tricoya Technologies Ltd's pending office actions.
Mostly Chemistry & Materials (USPTO Tech Center 1700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
