Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
UMICORE KOREA LTD. is currently managing 2 pending office actions within the Chemistry & Materials technology area. These matters are distributed across 2 distinct examiners and 2 distinct art units, indicating a diversified prosecution landscape for the company. This spread suggests that the company is engaging with different segments of the patent office simultaneously. The use of multiple art units implies that the company's technology may span different specialized sub-sectors within the broader chemistry field. This diversification can help mitigate the risk of a single examiner's specific interpretation affecting the entire portfolio.
JENNA XIANXIAN COLTON is identified as the busiest examiner, currently overseeing 1 pending office action. Although this examiner is the busiest, they only handle a single matter, while the company has 2 pending office actions in total. This distribution requires the company to adapt to the different examination styles of multiple officials across separate art units to advance its patent portfolio. Managing these matters involves coordinating responses to different examiners, which can introduce varied timelines and requirements into the prosecution process. Practitioners should be prepared to handle distinct sets of prior art and examination standards for each of the 2 pending office actions.
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 (50%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| COLTON, JENNA XIANXIAN | 1 | — | — |
| KENLAW, GRACE A | 1 | 50.8% | +37.7% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17259662 | RECHARGEABLE LITHIUM ION BATTERY WITH IMPROVED LIFE CHARACTERISTICS | KENLAW, GRACE A | 16d |
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 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17259662 | RECHARGEABLE LITHIUM ION BATTERY WITH IMPROVED LIFE CHARACTERISTICS | KENLAW, GRACE A | 16d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1782 | 1 |
| 1723 | 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 |
| 17259662 | RECHARGEABLE LITHIUM ION BATTERY WITH IMPROVED LIFE CHARACTERISTICS | KENLAW, GRACE A | 1723 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | 16d | Pending | Jan 12, 2021 |
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