Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
1 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Broadley-James Corporation currently has 1 pending office action focused in the Chemistry & Materials technology area. This active prosecution is being managed by 1 distinct examiner. The company's current patent activity is localized within 1 distinct art unit, indicating a concentrated technical scope for its pending applications. Such a narrow focus suggests that the company is pursuing specialized chemical innovations that fall under 1 distinct art unit at the patent office.
QIAN, SHIZHI is the busiest examiner for the Broadley-James Corporation portfolio. This examiner is currently overseeing 1 busiest examiner pending action. The alignment of the entire pending workload under this individual and 1 distinct art unit simplifies the administrative tracking of the company's intellectual property strategy. Practitioners can focus their resources on addressing the specific technical requirements and examination style of QIAN, SHIZHI to move this chemistry application toward allowance at the patent office.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| QIAN, SHIZHI | 1 | 62.0% | +46.2% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18793575 | SENSING ELEMENT FOR USE WITH MEDIA-PRESERVING STORAGE AND CALIBRATION CHAMBER | QIAN, SHIZHI | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18793575 | SENSING ELEMENT FOR USE WITH MEDIA-PRESERVING STORAGE AND CALIBRATION CHAMBER | QIAN, SHIZHI | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1795 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18793575 | SENSING ELEMENT FOR USE WITH MEDIA-PRESERVING STORAGE AND CALIBRATION CHAMBER | QIAN, SHIZHI | 1795 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 02, 2024 |
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Start Free TrialBroadley-James Corporation has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Shizhi Qian has the most, with 1 of Broadley-James Corporation's pending office actions.
Mostly Chemistry & Materials (USPTO Tech Center 1700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
