Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
3 pending office actions • 1 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Zima International Inc. D/B/A Dandy is currently managing 2 pending office actions within the technology area of Chemistry & Materials. These actions are assigned to 2 distinct examiners, indicating that each examiner is responsible for a pending matter. Despite having multiple examiners, the prosecution is centralized within 1 distinct art unit, suggesting a narrow technical focus for these specific filings.
The busiest examiner for the portfolio is CACHET I PROCTOR, who is currently handling 1 busiest examiner pending action. The presence of multiple examiners within a single art unit means the company is interacting with different individuals who likely share similar technical expertise and supervisory structures. This allows for a consistent technical approach across the Chemistry & Materials portfolio.
For practitioners, the concentration in 1 distinct art unit simplifies the administrative landscape, even as the pending office actions require separate negotiations with different examiners. This structure necessitates individual examiner engagement for each case while maintaining a unified focus on the company's chemistry and materials innovations.
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 |
|---|---|
| §101 + other | 1 (33%) |
| §103 only | 1 (33%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| HON, SOW FUN | 1 | 57.7% | +64.8% |
| WIECZOREK, MICHAEL P | 1 | 55.2% | +16.8% |
| PROCTOR, CACHET I | 1 | 77.1% | +5.9% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19043001 | Ceramic Inkjet Ink Compositions for Printing on Dental Restorations | HON, SOW FUN | — |
| 19041386 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR GLAZING DENTAL RESTORATIONS WITH CERAMIC INK VIA INKJET PRINTER | WIECZOREK, MICHAEL P | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19043001 | Ceramic Inkjet Ink Compositions for Printing on Dental Restorations | HON, SOW FUN | — |
| 19041386 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR GLAZING DENTAL RESTORATIONS WITH CERAMIC INK VIA INKJET PRINTER | WIECZOREK, MICHAEL P | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1712 | 2 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19043001 | Ceramic Inkjet Ink Compositions for Printing on Dental Restorations | HON, SOW FUN | — | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 31, 2025 |
| 19041386 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR GLAZING DENTAL RESTORATIONS WITH CERAMIC INK VIA INKJET PRINTER | WIECZOREK, MICHAEL P | 1712 | §101§102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 30, 2025 |
| 19041426 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CERAMIC INKJET MESH PRINTING | PROCTOR, CACHET I | 1712 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 30, 2025 |
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