Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals • Chemistry & Materials
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Azul Energy Inc. is currently prosecuting 2 pending office actions within the Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals technology area. The portfolio exhibits a distributed structure, as these matters are handled by 2 distinct examiners. Furthermore, the applications are situated in 2 distinct art units, suggesting that the company's innovations span different technical sub-sectors within the biotechnology field.
HOU, FRANK S is identified as the busiest examiner for the company, managing 1 busiest examiner pending office action. Because this examiner is responsible for 1 of the total 2 pending office actions, the company's prosecution success is not reliant on a single individual. This 1 to 2 ratio between the busiest examiner's workload and the total pending actions indicates a balanced distribution of legal matters across the patent office's personnel.
For a patent practitioner, the presence of 2 distinct art units requires a strategy that accounts for different examination cultures. Since 2 distinct examiners are involved, the practitioner must prepare for two potentially different sets of objections and timelines. The influence of HOU, FRANK S is limited to 1 busiest examiner pending office action, meaning that the other pending matter will be decided independently by a different examiner in a separate art unit.
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 |
|---|---|
| §103 only | 1 (50%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (50%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ZHANG, KELING NMN | 1 | 66.8% | +17.6% |
| HOU, FRANK S | 1 | 68.3% | +34.8% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18001517 | METAL COMPLEX OR ADDUCT THEREOF, CATALYST COMPRISING METAL COMPLEX OR ADDUCT THEREOF AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING SAME, LIQUID COMPOSITION OR ELECTRODE CONTAINING CATALYST, AND AIR BATTERY OR FUEL CELL EQUIPPED WITH ELECTRODE | HOU, FRANK S | 7d |
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 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18001517 | METAL COMPLEX OR ADDUCT THEREOF, CATALYST COMPRISING METAL COMPLEX OR ADDUCT THEREOF AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING SAME, LIQUID COMPOSITION OR ELECTRODE CONTAINING CATALYST, AND AIR BATTERY OR FUEL CELL EQUIPPED WITH ELECTRODE | HOU, FRANK S | 7d |
| 18001513 | OXYGEN REDUCTION CATALYST AND SELECTION METHOD THEREOF, LIQUID COMPOSITION OR ELECTRODE CONTAINING OXYGEN REDUCTION CATALYST, AND AIR BATTERY OR FUEL CELL PROVIDED WITH ELECTRODE | ZHANG, KELING NMN | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1732 | 1 |
| 1692 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18001513 | OXYGEN REDUCTION CATALYST AND SELECTION METHOD THEREOF, LIQUID COMPOSITION OR ELECTRODE CONTAINING OXYGEN REDUCTION CATALYST, AND AIR BATTERY OR FUEL CELL PROVIDED WITH ELECTRODE | ZHANG, KELING NMN | 1732 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Dec 12, 2022 |
| 18001517 | METAL COMPLEX OR ADDUCT THEREOF, CATALYST COMPRISING METAL COMPLEX OR ADDUCT THEREOF AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING SAME, LIQUID COMPOSITION OR ELECTRODE CONTAINING CATALYST, AND AIR BATTERY OR FUEL CELL EQUIPPED WITH ELECTRODE | HOU, FRANK S | 1692 | §102§112 | Non-Final OA | 7d | Pending | Dec 12, 2022 |
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