Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Young Chang Chemical Co. Ltd. has 1 pending office action within the Chemistry & Materials technology area. This single matter is being handled by 1 distinct examiner in 1 distinct art unit. This indicates a highly concentrated interaction with the patent office, with no current distribution of cases across different officials or departments.
KUMAR, PREETI is the busiest examiner for this portfolio, currently managing 1 pending office action. Because the total pending actions for the company is 1, this examiner is in charge of the entire active workload. This concentration suggests that the prosecution results for the current portfolio are entirely dependent on the review of this single individual. There are no other active matters to provide alternative examiner perspectives.
The involvement of 1 distinct art unit for the 1 pending office action confirms a narrow administrative focus for the current filings. Practitioners should note that there is no diversification of examiner perspectives within the Chemistry & Materials area for this portfolio. The workload is entirely centralized under KUMAR, PREETI, which simplifies the management of the company's active patent matters.
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 |
|---|---|
| §103 only | 2 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| LAOBAK, ANDREW KEELAN | 1 | 75.8% | +34.7% |
| KUMAR, PREETI | 1 | 31.9% | +43.7% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17641229 | PROCESS LIQUID COMPOSITION FOR PHOTOLITHOGRAPHY AND PATTERN FORMING METHOD USING SAME | KUMAR, PREETI | 72d overdue |
| 18016725 | ETCHANT COMPOSITION FOR ADJUSTING ETCHING SELECTIVITY OF TITANIUM NITRIDE FILM WITH RESPECT TO TUNGSTEN FILM, AND ETCHING METHOD USING SAME | LAOBAK, ANDREW KEELAN | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1713 | 1 |
| 1761 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18016725 | ETCHANT COMPOSITION FOR ADJUSTING ETCHING SELECTIVITY OF TITANIUM NITRIDE FILM WITH RESPECT TO TUNGSTEN FILM, AND ETCHING METHOD USING SAME | LAOBAK, ANDREW KEELAN | 1713 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 18, 2023 |
| 17641229 | PROCESS LIQUID COMPOSITION FOR PHOTOLITHOGRAPHY AND PATTERN FORMING METHOD USING SAME | KUMAR, PREETI | 1761 | §103 | Final Rejection | 72d overdue | Pending | Mar 08, 2022 |
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Start Free TrialYoung Chang Chemical Co. Ltd. has 2 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 2 art units and 2 examiners.
Andrew Keelan Laobak has the most, with 1 of Young Chang Chemical Co. Ltd.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Chemistry & Materials (USPTO Tech Center 1700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
