Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
1 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
BRAINDTECH S.p.A. is currently processing 1 pending office action in the Chemistry & Materials technology area. This action is assigned to 1 distinct examiner, SHI, TINGCHEN, who is the busiest examiner with 1 busiest examiner pending action. The prosecution is occurring within 1 distinct art unit, indicating a specific focus in the chemistry field. This lack of diversity in examiners and art units means the company's strategy is highly dependent on a single individual's interpretation.
The 1 pending office action is the only active matter for the company at this time. Because there is only 1 distinct examiner involved, the prosecution outcome for the Chemistry & Materials portfolio is entirely dependent on the review of SHI, TINGCHEN. The 1 distinct art unit suggests that the technology is not being split across different examination divisions, which may simplify the management of the action. Practitioners must focus their resources on this single interaction to resolve the current workload in the Chemistry & Materials field.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| SHI, TINGCHEN | 1 | 69.4% | +22.7% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18367569 | Microfluidic device and method for isolating particles | SHI, TINGCHEN | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18367569 | Microfluidic device and method for isolating particles | SHI, TINGCHEN | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1796 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18367569 | Microfluidic device and method for isolating particles | SHI, TINGCHEN | 1796 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 13, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialBRAINDTECH S.p.A. has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Tingchen Shi has the most, with 1 of BRAINDTECH S.p.A.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Chemistry & Materials (USPTO Tech Center 1700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
