Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
1 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Uvat Technology Co. Ltd. has 1 pending office action in the Chemistry & Materials technology area. This action is assigned to 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit. This indicates a concentrated effort on a specific chemical or material innovation, with all prosecution efforts directed through a single administrative channel.
The busiest examiner, CROWELL, ANNA M, is responsible for 1 pending office action. This figure represents the total active workload for the company's portfolio. Since there is only 1 distinct art unit involved, the prosecution is limited to one specialized sector of the patent office. Practitioners should focus on the specific examination style of CROWELL, ANNA M to achieve a favorable outcome for this Chemistry & Materials application.
With 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit, the company faces a highly concentrated prosecution environment. The busiest examiner, CROWELL, ANNA M, handles the 1 pending office action, meaning her individual review will determine the outcome of the application. Practitioners must ensure that the prosecution strategy is precisely aligned with the standards of this art unit and the specific preferences of the assigned examiner.
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 (100%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| CROWELL, ANNA M | 1 | 44.6% | +30.5% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18380216 | TWO-ELECTRODE CONTINUOUS PLASMA PROCESSING SYSTEM | CROWELL, ANNA M | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1716 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18380216 | TWO-ELECTRODE CONTINUOUS PLASMA PROCESSING SYSTEM | CROWELL, ANNA M | 1716 | §103§112DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 16, 2023 |
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