Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
1 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Applied Graphene Materials UK Limited has 1 pending office action in the Chemistry & Materials technology area. This prosecution activity is limited to 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit, indicating a focused approach to securing its material science intellectual property. This narrow scope suggests that the company is prioritizing a specific graphene-related innovation within its current active filings at the patent office rather than pursuing a broad array of chemical applications.
CHING-YIU FUNG is the busiest examiner for the company, managing 1 pending office action. This examiner is responsible for the total workload currently active in the portfolio. The concentration in 1 art unit suggests that the graphene-related technology is being examined within a specific chemical classification, which may streamline the response process by allowing the legal team to focus on the technical standards of a single examination group.
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 |
|---|---|
| Double-patenting 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FUNG, CHING-YIU | 1 | 32.6% | +20.6% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17625462 | DISPERSIONS | FUNG, CHING-YIU | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1732 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17625462 | DISPERSIONS | FUNG, CHING-YIU | 1732 | DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 07, 2022 |
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Start Free TrialApplied Graphene Materials UK Limited has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Ching-Yiu Fung has the most, with 1 of Applied Graphene Materials UK Limited's pending office actions.
Mostly Chemistry & Materials (USPTO Tech Center 1700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
