Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
1 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 8 patents granted in the last 365 days
Anhui Agricultural University is managing 2 pending office actions in the Chemistry & Materials technology area. These matters involve 2 distinct examiners and 2 distinct art units, indicating a split in the current prosecution workload. LANGEL, WAYNE A is the busiest examiner, currently overseeing 1 pending office action.
With 2 pending office actions in total, the university must navigate the specific requirements of two different art units. This distribution suggests that the current filings are being reviewed independently by different examiners.
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 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| LANGEL, WAYNE A | 1 | 78.4% | +23.3% |
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 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18407310 | BREVUNDIMONAS AND USE THEREOF IN TEA PLANT PLANTING | LANGEL, WAYNE A | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1736 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18407310 | BREVUNDIMONAS AND USE THEREOF IN TEA PLANT PLANTING | LANGEL, WAYNE A | 1736 | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 08, 2024 |
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Start Free TrialAnhui Agricultural University has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Wayne A Langel has the most, with 1 of Anhui Agricultural University's pending office actions.
Mostly Chemistry & Materials (USPTO Tech Center 1700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
