Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Chemistry & Materials • Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 3 patents granted in the last 365 days
Zhejiang Kingdom New Material Group Co. Ltd. has 2 pending office actions in the Chemistry & Materials technology area. These actions are split across 2 distinct art units, indicating that the company's active prosecution is divided between 2 technical classifications. This division suggests that the company's innovations in this sector are being evaluated by at least 2 different specialized groups within the patent office.
The workload involves 2 distinct examiners, with each examiner handling 1 case. KENNEDY, TIMOTHY J is the busiest examiner with 1 pending office action, accounting for 1 of the company's total 2 pending actions. With 2 distinct examiners and 2 distinct art units, the prosecution is distributed across different technical and individual perspectives. Practitioners should be prepared to adapt their strategy to the specific requirements of each examiner and the standards of each art unit, as there is no concentration of workload under 1 individual.
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 |
|---|---|
| §102 only | 1 (50%) |
| §112 only | 1 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| KENNEDY, TIMOTHY J | 1 | 71.2% | +17.7% |
| MAESTRI, PATRICK J | 1 | 73.4% | +14.9% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19199958 | HALOGEN-FREE MODIFIED HIGH-FILLING RECYCLABLE PLASTIC BOARD AND METHOD OF FORMING THE SAME. | KENNEDY, TIMOTHY J | — |
| 18904952 | HERRINGBONE LOCKING PLATE UNIT AND SPLICING PLATE | MAESTRI, PATRICK J | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1787 | 1 |
| 3635 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19199958 | HALOGEN-FREE MODIFIED HIGH-FILLING RECYCLABLE PLASTIC BOARD AND METHOD OF FORMING THE SAME. | KENNEDY, TIMOTHY J | 1787 | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 06, 2025 |
| 18904952 | HERRINGBONE LOCKING PLATE UNIT AND SPLICING PLATE | MAESTRI, PATRICK J | 3635 | §102 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Oct 02, 2024 |
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