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 • 3 patents granted in the last 365 days
UTI INC. currently has 2 pending office actions within the Chemistry & Materials technology area. These actions are distributed across 2 distinct examiners and 2 distinct art units, showing a diversified approach even within a small portfolio. This distribution means that the company must navigate different sets of examiner expectations and different art unit standards simultaneously. Such a spread indicates that the company's innovations in Chemistry & Materials are being evaluated from multiple technical perspectives within the patent office.
YANG, ZHEREN J is the busiest examiner, though they are only responsible for 1 pending office action. This indicates that the 2 pending office actions are split between the 2 distinct examiners. For the practitioner, this means that there is no central examiner to influence the entire portfolio, and each case must be handled as an independent matter. The involvement of 2 distinct art units further suggests that the technical arguments must be tailored to the specific requirements of each unit to successfully resolve the 2 pending office actions. Managing these 2 pending office actions requires a strategy to address the unique concerns of each assigned examiner involved in the Chemistry & Materials sector.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 1 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 |
|---|---|
| Double-patenting + other | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| YANG, ZHEREN J | 1 | 57.4% | +52.4% |
| KRUER, KEVIN R | 1 | 26.8% | +29.4% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17816591 | FLEXIBLE COVER WINDOW WITH IMPROVED STRENGTH | KRUER, KEVIN R | 28d |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17816591 | FLEXIBLE COVER WINDOW WITH IMPROVED STRENGTH | KRUER, KEVIN R | 28d |
| 18119407 | METHOD OF MANUFACTURING REINFORCED COVER WINDOW AND REINFORCED COVER WINDOW MANUFACTURED THEREBY | YANG, ZHEREN J | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1781 | 1 |
| 1787 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18119407 | METHOD OF MANUFACTURING REINFORCED COVER WINDOW AND REINFORCED COVER WINDOW MANUFACTURED THEREBY | YANG, ZHEREN J | 1781 | §103§112DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 09, 2023 |
| 17816591 | FLEXIBLE COVER WINDOW WITH IMPROVED STRENGTH | KRUER, KEVIN R | 1787 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 28d | Pending | Aug 01, 2022 |
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