Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
7 pending office actions • 7 art units • 7 examiners • 0 of 7 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 10 patents granted in the last 365 days
VulcanForms Inc. has 7 pending office actions in Chemistry & Materials. The matters are distributed across 7 examiners and 7 art units, creating individually assigned prosecution tracks.
SONG, INJA is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending matter. Counsel should use structured portfolio oversight while preparing separate responses for each examiner and art unit.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 4 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.
Every pending office action with a known statutory deadline, placed on a days-until-due axis. Dots left of Today are overdue; the further right, the more runway. Cases that share a deadline window stack vertically. 4 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.
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 | 3 (43%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 4 (57%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| SONG, INJA | 1 | 66.5% | +47.7% |
| LIANG, SHIBIN | 1 | 63.0% | +17.1% |
| PYO, KEVIN K | 1 | 87.0% | +9.9% |
| HEVEY, JOHN A | 1 | 61.8% | +19.7% |
| CARPENTER, JOSHUA S | 1 | 51.6% | +37.2% |
| ISKRA, JOSEPH W | 1 | 71.3% | +27.1% |
| ROBERTS, RACHEL L | 1 | 73.0% | +24.0% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 4 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18524219 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PREDICTING PART DEFECTS DURING ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING | ROBERTS, RACHEL L | 5d |
| 18676128 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DETERMINING SPATIAL CHARACTERISTICS OF OPTICAL BEAMS | PYO, KEVIN K | 40d |
| 18524356 | ELECTROSTATIC RECOATER | HEVEY, JOHN A | — |
| 18524240 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR GAS HEAD CLEANING | CARPENTER, JOSHUA S | — |
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 6 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18750585 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR HEATING AND MOUNTING A BUILD PLATE FOR ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING | SONG, INJA | 5d overdue |
| 18524219 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PREDICTING PART DEFECTS DURING ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING | ROBERTS, RACHEL L | 5d |
| 18524485 | OPTICS SHIELD | ISKRA, JOSEPH W | 22d |
| 18735814 | FIBER FUSE DETECTION IN ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING | LIANG, SHIBIN | — |
| 18524356 | ELECTROSTATIC RECOATER | HEVEY, JOHN A | — |
| 18524240 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR GAS HEAD CLEANING | CARPENTER, JOSHUA S | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1744 | 1 |
| 1741 | 1 |
| 2878 | 1 |
| 1735 | 1 |
| 1733 | 1 |
| 3761 | 1 |
| 2674 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18750585 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR HEATING AND MOUNTING A BUILD PLATE FOR ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING | SONG, INJA | 1744 | §103 | Final Rejection | 5d overdue | Pending | Jun 21, 2024 |
| 18735814 | FIBER FUSE DETECTION IN ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING | LIANG, SHIBIN | 1741 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 06, 2024 |
| 18676128 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DETERMINING SPATIAL CHARACTERISTICS OF OPTICAL BEAMS | PYO, KEVIN K | 2878 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | 40d | Pending | May 28, 2024 |
| 18524356 | ELECTROSTATIC RECOATER | HEVEY, JOHN A | 1735 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Nov 30, 2023 |
| 18524240 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR GAS HEAD CLEANING | CARPENTER, JOSHUA S | 1733 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 30, 2023 |
| 18524485 | OPTICS SHIELD | ISKRA, JOSEPH W | 3761 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 22d | Pending | Nov 30, 2023 |
| 18524219 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PREDICTING PART DEFECTS DURING ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING | ROBERTS, RACHEL L | 2674 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 5d | Pending | Nov 30, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialVulcanForms Inc. has 7 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 7 art units and 7 examiners.
Inja Song has the most, with 1 of VulcanForms Inc.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Chemistry & Materials (USPTO Tech Center 1700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
