Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
1 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Applied Materias Inc. is managing 1 pending office action in the Chemistry & Materials technology area. This active matter is assigned to a distinct examiner and a single art unit, representing a specific focus for the company's current prosecution efforts.
ZHENG, LOIS L serves as the busiest examiner, holding 1 pending office action. This concentration means that the company's immediate patent strategy is tied to the examination style of this specific individual and the standards of the single art unit involved.
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 |
|---|---|
| §103 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ZHENG, LOIS L | 1 | 67.6% | +13.0% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17666188 | ENHANCED OXIDATION WITH HYDROGEN RADICAL PRETREATMENT | ZHENG, LOIS L | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1733 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17666188 | ENHANCED OXIDATION WITH HYDROGEN RADICAL PRETREATMENT | ZHENG, LOIS L | 1733 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 07, 2022 |
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