Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
4 pending office actions • 2 art units • 4 examiners • 0 of 4 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 2 patents granted in the last 365 days
Advanced Biomedical Instrumentation Centre Limited is managing 4 pending office actions within the Chemistry & Materials technology area. These actions are distributed across 4 distinct examiners, which means each examiner is currently responsible for a single matter. This distribution is further organized into 2 distinct art units.
QIAN, SHIZHI is the busiest examiner for this portfolio, holding 1 pending office action. This individual's workload is part of the 4 total pending office actions. The involvement of the distinct examiners and 2 distinct art units within the Chemistry & Materials area indicates that the company's filings are being reviewed by several different specialized groups and individuals at the patent office.
The prosecution strategy must account for the different examiners involved in the Chemistry & Materials sector. QIAN, SHIZHI is one of the four individuals currently reviewing the company's applications. The spread across the art units suggests that the technology being patented covers multiple sub-specialties within the broader field.
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 |
|---|---|
| §112 only | 1 (25%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 3 (75%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| QIAN, SHIZHI | 1 | 61.8% | +47.9% |
| VARGOT, MATHIEU D | 1 | 62.4% | +20.9% |
| ESPERON, NATHAN GREGORY | 1 | 41.0% | +23.3% |
| LIANG, ANTHONY M | 1 | 83.5% | +9.5% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18536120 | Hybrid Printing of Copper Conductive Material | LIANG, ANTHONY M | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18916683 | RAPID, SINGLE-STEP AND REAGENTLESS ELECTROCHEMICAL BIOSENSING METHODS, COMPOSITIONS AND DEVICES FOR NANOMOLAR DETECTION OF C-REACTIVE PROTEIN | QIAN, SHIZHI | — |
| 18912551 | VASCULAR NETWORK INSPIRED FLUIDIC SYSTEM FOR SPATIOTEMPORAL REGULATION OF FLUID COMPONENTS | VARGOT, MATHIEU D | — |
| 18607538 | MICROFLUIDIC PLATFORM FOR DIGITAL DROPLET BIOASSAY WITH SPATIALLY PROGRAMMABLE THERMAL CYCLER | ESPERON, NATHAN GREGORY | — |
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 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18916683 | RAPID, SINGLE-STEP AND REAGENTLESS ELECTROCHEMICAL BIOSENSING METHODS, COMPOSITIONS AND DEVICES FOR NANOMOLAR DETECTION OF C-REACTIVE PROTEIN | QIAN, SHIZHI | — |
| 18912551 | VASCULAR NETWORK INSPIRED FLUIDIC SYSTEM FOR SPATIOTEMPORAL REGULATION OF FLUID COMPONENTS | VARGOT, MATHIEU D | — |
| 18607538 | MICROFLUIDIC PLATFORM FOR DIGITAL DROPLET BIOASSAY WITH SPATIALLY PROGRAMMABLE THERMAL CYCLER | ESPERON, NATHAN GREGORY | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1742 | 1 |
| 1734 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18916683 | RAPID, SINGLE-STEP AND REAGENTLESS ELECTROCHEMICAL BIOSENSING METHODS, COMPOSITIONS AND DEVICES FOR NANOMOLAR DETECTION OF C-REACTIVE PROTEIN | QIAN, SHIZHI | — | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 15, 2024 |
| 18912551 | VASCULAR NETWORK INSPIRED FLUIDIC SYSTEM FOR SPATIOTEMPORAL REGULATION OF FLUID COMPONENTS | VARGOT, MATHIEU D | 1742 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 10, 2024 |
| 18607538 | MICROFLUIDIC PLATFORM FOR DIGITAL DROPLET BIOASSAY WITH SPATIALLY PROGRAMMABLE THERMAL CYCLER | ESPERON, NATHAN GREGORY | — | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 17, 2024 |
| 18536120 | Hybrid Printing of Copper Conductive Material | LIANG, ANTHONY M | 1734 | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 11, 2023 |
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