Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
6 pending office actions • 3 art units • 6 examiners • 0 of 6 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 9 patents granted in the last 365 days
Wonik Ips Co. Ltd. has 6 pending office actions in Chemistry & Materials. The matters involve 6 examiners across 3 art units, with CHEN, BRET P as the busiest examiner handling 1 pending action.
Each action has a distinct examiner, while the smaller set of art units offers a framework for organizing related technical issues. Counsel should maintain consistent materials terminology but avoid assuming that one examiner’s treatment will apply throughout the docket.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 3 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. 3 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 (50%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 3 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| CHEN, BRET P | 1 | 84.5% | +16.3% |
| PENCE, JETHRO M | 1 | 79.1% | +25.2% |
| ZERVIGON, RUDY | 1 | 66.9% | -5.4% |
| BALDWIN, GORDON | 1 | 54.7% | +31.5% |
| SWEELY, KURT D | 1 | 52.5% | +34.2% |
| REYES, JOSHUA NATHANIEL PI | 1 | 42.3% | +50.5% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17901640 | SUBSTRATE PROCESSING APPARATUS | SWEELY, KURT D | 15d |
| 18873887 | METHOD FOR FORMING METAL NITRIDE THIN FILM | CHEN, BRET P | — |
| 18499943 | SUBSTRATE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND SUBSTRATE PROCESSING METHOD | PENCE, JETHRO M | — |
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 5 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17901640 | SUBSTRATE PROCESSING APPARATUS | SWEELY, KURT D | 15d |
| 17901252 | SUBSTRATE PROCESSING APPARATUS | BALDWIN, GORDON | 72d |
| 18873887 | METHOD FOR FORMING METAL NITRIDE THIN FILM | CHEN, BRET P | — |
| 18499943 | SUBSTRATE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND SUBSTRATE PROCESSING METHOD | PENCE, JETHRO M | — |
| 17901562 | SUBSTRATE PROCESSING APPARATUS | REYES, JOSHUA NATHANIEL PI | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1718 | 4 |
| 1717 | 1 |
| 1716 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18873887 | METHOD FOR FORMING METAL NITRIDE THIN FILM | CHEN, BRET P | 1718 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 11, 2024 |
| 18499943 | SUBSTRATE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND SUBSTRATE PROCESSING METHOD | PENCE, JETHRO M | 1717 | §102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 01, 2023 |
| 18081263 | SUBSTRATE PROCESSING APPARATUS | ZERVIGON, RUDY | 1716 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 49d | Pending | Dec 14, 2022 |
| 17901252 | SUBSTRATE PROCESSING APPARATUS | BALDWIN, GORDON | 1718 | §103 | Final Rejection | 72d | Pending | Sep 01, 2022 |
| 17901640 | SUBSTRATE PROCESSING APPARATUS | SWEELY, KURT D | 1718 | §102§103§112 | Final Rejection | 15d | Pending | Sep 01, 2022 |
| 17901562 | SUBSTRATE PROCESSING APPARATUS | REYES, JOSHUA NATHANIEL PI | 1718 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 01, 2022 |
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Start Free TrialWonik Ips Co. Ltd. has 6 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 3 art units and 6 examiners.
Bret P Chen has the most, with 1 of Wonik Ips Co. Ltd.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Chemistry & Materials (USPTO Tech Center 1700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
