Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
3 pending office actions • 3 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
UMICORE KOREA LTD. has 2 pending office actions in the Chemistry & Materials technology area. These matters are being processed in 2 distinct art units, which suggests the company's materials science innovations are categorized into different specialized groups. The presence of distinct examiners indicates that each pending action is under the authority of a different patent office official, providing a diversified examination experience.
COLTON, JENNA XIANXIAN is the busiest examiner for this applicant, currently managing 1 pending office action. Given the total of 2 pending office actions and the distinct examiners, the prosecution is spread thin, with the busiest examiner overseeing a portion of the active cases. This distribution across 2 distinct art units and examiners requires the applicant to address the unique perspectives of different individuals in different technical fields. The strategy for one case may not directly apply to the other due to this separation.
For a practitioner, the Chemistry & Materials focus necessitates a deep understanding of the specific art units involved. Since the 1 pending office action under the busiest examiner represents half of the active workload, its resolution is critical. The applicant must be prepared for different procedural styles from the distinct examiners. Coordinating these separate prosecution tracks is essential to maintain a cohesive patent strategy for UMICORE KOREA LTD. while meeting the specific demands of each assigned examiner.
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 | 2 (67%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| COLTON, JENNA XIANXIAN | 1 | — | — |
| JONES, OLIVIA ANN | 1 | 58.6% | +52.3% |
| WEI, ZHONGQING | 1 | 59.4% | +14.9% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 16753429 | BATTERY Having a Solid-Electrolyte Interface Layer at an Interface of Negative Electrode Composite Particles and Electrolyte | WEI, ZHONGQING | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18035135 | A POSITIVE ELECTRODE ACTIVE MATERIAL FOR RECHARGEABLE BATTERIES | JONES, OLIVIA ANN | 12d |
| 16753429 | BATTERY Having a Solid-Electrolyte Interface Layer at an Interface of Negative Electrode Composite Particles and Electrolyte | WEI, ZHONGQING | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1782 | 1 |
| 1789 | 1 |
| 1727 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18268302 | LITHIUM NICKEL-BASED COMPOSITE OXIDE AS A POSITIVE ELECTRODE ACTIVE MATERIAL FOR RECHARGEABLE LITHIUM-ION BATTERIES | COLTON, JENNA XIANXIAN | 1782 | §103 | Final Rejection | 27d | Pending | Jun 19, 2023 |
| 18035135 | A POSITIVE ELECTRODE ACTIVE MATERIAL FOR RECHARGEABLE BATTERIES | JONES, OLIVIA ANN | 1789 | §103 | Final Rejection | 12d | Pending | May 03, 2023 |
| 16753429 | BATTERY Having a Solid-Electrolyte Interface Layer at an Interface of Negative Electrode Composite Particles and Electrolyte | WEI, ZHONGQING | 1727 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Apr 03, 2020 |
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Start Free TrialUMICORE KOREA LTD. has 3 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 3 art units and 3 examiners.
Jenna Xianxian Colton has the most, with 1 of UMICORE KOREA LTD.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Chemistry & Materials (USPTO Tech Center 1700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
