Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
4 pending office actions • 3 art units • 4 examiners • 0 of 4 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Tricoya Technologies Ltd operates in the Chemistry & Materials technology area. The company's patent portfolio is currently managing 4 pending office actions, showing a significant level of ongoing interaction with the patent office. These actions are distributed among 4 distinct examiners, which indicates that each pending matter is being handled by a different official. Despite the variety of examiners, the prosecution is concentrated within 3 distinct art units, suggesting some overlap in the technical categories of the filings.
The busiest examiner for the company is KITT, STEPHEN A, who is overseeing 1 busiest examiner pending office action. This shows that the workload is evenly spread, as the busiest examiner pending count is only 1 out of the 4 pending office actions. The involvement of 4 distinct examiners across 3 distinct art units requires the company to manage multiple simultaneous dialogues within the USPTO. This structure suggests that while the technology is focused enough to stay within 3 distinct art units, it is broad enough to trigger review by 4 separate individuals.
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 (25%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 3 (75%) |
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% | +38.7% |
| EMPIE, NATHAN H | 1 | 43.5% | +43.1% |
| HEINCER, LIAM J | 1 | 55.8% | +26.0% |
| WIECZOREK, MICHAEL P | 1 | 55.2% | +16.8% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| 17652550 | METHOD FOR CONTINUOUS ACETYLATION OF WOOD ELEMENTS | HEINCER, LIAM J | — |
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 4 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 | — |
| 17652550 | METHOD FOR CONTINUOUS ACETYLATION OF WOOD ELEMENTS | HEINCER, LIAM J | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1712 | 2 |
| 1717 | 1 |
| 1767 | 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 |
| 17652550 | METHOD FOR CONTINUOUS ACETYLATION OF WOOD ELEMENTS | HEINCER, LIAM J | 1767 | §102§103Other | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Feb 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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