Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
1 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Blue Star Advanced Materials Co. Ltd. currently manages a focused patent portfolio within the Chemistry & Materials technology area. The company has 1 pending office action, which is being handled by a single examiner. This indicates a narrow focus for their current prosecution efforts, as all active matters are localized within 1 distinct art unit. For a practitioner, this indicates that the legal strategy can be narrowly tailored to the specific examination standards of this technical division.
The busiest examiner for the portfolio is FORREST, MICHAEL, who is responsible for the 1 busiest examiner pending office action. Because there is only 1 distinct examiner involved across the entire set of pending actions, the company's immediate legal strategy depends entirely on the feedback from this individual. This concentration in 1 distinct art unit suggests that the pending intellectual property is specialized within a specific technical niche of materials science. This centralized prosecution profile minimizes the complexity often found in larger portfolios that span multiple art units and examiners, allowing for a highly targeted patenting strategy.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FORREST, MICHAEL | 1 | 59.6% | +13.7% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18472998 | METHOD OF MANUFACTURING SILICON-BASED ANODE ACTIVE MATERIAL AND MANUFACTURING EQUIPMENT IMPLEMENTING SUCH METHOD | FORREST, MICHAEL | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18472998 | METHOD OF MANUFACTURING SILICON-BASED ANODE ACTIVE MATERIAL AND MANUFACTURING EQUIPMENT IMPLEMENTING SUCH METHOD | FORREST, MICHAEL | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1727 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18472998 | METHOD OF MANUFACTURING SILICON-BASED ANODE ACTIVE MATERIAL AND MANUFACTURING EQUIPMENT IMPLEMENTING SUCH METHOD | FORREST, MICHAEL | 1727 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 22, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialBlue Star Advanced Materials Co. Ltd. has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Michael Forrest has the most, with 1 of Blue Star Advanced Materials Co. Ltd.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Chemistry & Materials (USPTO Tech Center 1700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
