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
Bie Technology Group Co. Ltd. is currently managing 1 pending office action within the Chemistry & Materials technology area. This single matter is being examined within a distinct art unit, indicating a focused prosecution effort in this specific technical field. The company is interacting with a distinct examiner for this active application, which concentrates the current legal dialogue on a single point of contact within the patent office.
The busiest examiner for the portfolio is SELLS, JAMES D, who is responsible for 1 busiest examiner pending action. Because this matches the total number of pending office actions, this examiner is handling the entirety of the company's current workload. This alignment between the total volume of pending cases and the busiest examiner's responsibility is a direct result of the current portfolio size.
Practitioners should focus on the specific requirements of the Chemistry & Materials area as they relate to the 1 pending office action. With a distinct examiner and a distinct art unit involved, the prosecution strategy is currently centered on a single interaction. This allows for a dedicated focus on the examiner's specific concerns without the complexity of multiple concurrent office actions.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| SELLS, JAMES D | 1 | 81.4% | +11.9% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18992616 | BONDING DEVICE AND BONDING METHOD | SELLS, JAMES D | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18992616 | BONDING DEVICE AND BONDING METHOD | SELLS, JAMES D | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1745 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18992616 | BONDING DEVICE AND BONDING METHOD | SELLS, JAMES D | 1745 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 09, 2025 |
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