Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
6 pending office actions • 3 art units • 6 examiners • 0 of 6 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 10 patents granted in the last 365 days
Wonik Ips Co. Ltd. manages a patent portfolio in the Chemistry & Materials technology area, currently featuring 6 pending office actions. This level of activity indicates a multi-track prosecution process. The workload is distributed across 3 distinct art units, which suggests that the company's pending applications cover different technical sub-specialties within the broader chemistry field.
The prosecution is overseen by 6 distinct examiners, meaning that the company must navigate 6 different examination styles simultaneously. PENCE, JETHRO M is identified as the busiest examiner, although he is responsible for 1 pending office action. This distribution shows that no single examiner has a dominant influence over the portfolio's current progress, requiring a balanced approach to each individual case.
For practitioners, the presence of 6 pending office actions and 6 distinct examiners means that strategies must be tailored to each specific matter. There is no examiner overlap to leverage for consistent rulings across the portfolio. Success in the Chemistry & Materials area for Wonik Ips Co. Ltd. will require addressing the unique requirements of the 3 distinct art units and the specific feedback from each of the 6 examiners involved.
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 (50%) |
| §102 only | 1 (17%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (33%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| PENCE, JETHRO M | 1 | 79.0% | +25.4% |
| YU, YUECHUAN | 1 | 66.4% | +19.5% |
| ZERVIGON, RUDY | 1 | 66.8% | -5.4% |
| SWEELY, KURT D | 1 | 52.8% | +33.9% |
| REYES, JOSHUA NATHANIEL PI | 1 | 41.4% | +51.2% |
| BALDWIN, GORDON | 1 | 55.0% | +31.6% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17901640 | SUBSTRATE PROCESSING APPARATUS | SWEELY, KURT D | 15d |
| 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 |
| 18447012 | FEEDING BLOCK AND SUBSTRATE PROCESSING APPARATUS INCLUDING THE SAME | YU, YUECHUAN | 22d |
| 17901252 | SUBSTRATE PROCESSING APPARATUS | BALDWIN, GORDON | 72d |
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18499943 | SUBSTRATE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND SUBSTRATE PROCESSING METHOD | PENCE, JETHRO M | 1717 | §102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 01, 2023 |
| 18447012 | FEEDING BLOCK AND SUBSTRATE PROCESSING APPARATUS INCLUDING THE SAME | YU, YUECHUAN | 1718 | §102Other | Final Rejection | 22d | Pending | Aug 09, 2023 |
| 18081263 | SUBSTRATE PROCESSING APPARATUS | ZERVIGON, RUDY | 1716 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 49d | Pending | Dec 14, 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 |
| 17901252 | SUBSTRATE PROCESSING APPARATUS | BALDWIN, GORDON | 1718 | §103 | Final Rejection | 72d | Pending | Sep 01, 2022 |
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