Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
1 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 2 patents granted in the last 365 days
Ao Technology AG has 1 pending office action in Chemistry & Materials. The matter is assigned to 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit, showing a concentrated prosecution profile. YE, XINWEN is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending matter.
The record gives counsel a single examination setting for reviewing the outstanding chemistry and materials issue. No additional examiner or art-unit assignment appears, so the response can be organized around one technical position. Any amendment should preserve support in the disclosure while directly addressing the issues associated with the identified examiner.
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 |
|---|---|
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| YE, XINWEN | 1 | 43.1% | +44.3% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17768393 | PATTERNING DEVICE FOR THE PREPARATION OF THREE-DIMENSIONAL STRUCTURES AND METHOD FOR THE PRODUCTION THEREOF | YE, XINWEN | 32d overdue |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17768393 | PATTERNING DEVICE FOR THE PREPARATION OF THREE-DIMENSIONAL STRUCTURES AND METHOD FOR THE PRODUCTION THEREOF | YE, XINWEN | 32d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1754 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17768393 | PATTERNING DEVICE FOR THE PREPARATION OF THREE-DIMENSIONAL STRUCTURES AND METHOD FOR THE PRODUCTION THEREOF | YE, XINWEN | 1754 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 32d overdue | Pending | Apr 12, 2022 |
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Start Free TrialAo Technology AG has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Xinwen Ye has the most, with 1 of Ao Technology AG's pending office actions.
Mostly Chemistry & Materials (USPTO Tech Center 1700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
