Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
6 pending office actions • 2 art units • 6 examiners • 0 of 6 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 3 patents granted in the last 365 days
BYD Precision Manufacture Co. Ltd. currently has 6 pending office actions within the Chemistry & Materials technology area. These actions are being reviewed by 6 distinct examiners, which shows a diverse set of individuals evaluating the company's patent applications. Despite the number of examiners, the work is concentrated within only 2 distinct art units, suggesting that the technical focus of these applications is relatively narrow within the broader chemistry field.
KESSIE, JENNIFER A is the busiest examiner for this portfolio, currently overseeing 1 pending office action. Because the busiest examiner pending count is 1, the 6 pending office actions are spread evenly across the 6 distinct examiners. This distribution means that no single examiner's backlog is disproportionately affecting the portfolio's overall progress.
Practitioners should focus on the specific standards of the 2 distinct art units involved. While 6 distinct examiners are involved, their shared art units likely mean they rely on similar sets of prior art and internal guidelines. Navigating these 6 pending office actions will require understanding the nuances of these two specific units while addressing the individual feedback from each of the 6 examiners.
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 (17%) |
| §102 only | 1 (17%) |
| §112 only | 1 (17%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 3 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| KESSIE, JENNIFER A | 1 | 64.9% | +20.3% |
| NGUYEN, SONNY V | 1 | 36.5% | +27.2% |
| CULBERT, COURTNEY GUENTHER | 1 | 26.9% | +8.2% |
| NGUYEN, PHU HOANG | 1 | 65.9% | +19.7% |
| WEILER, NICHOLAS JOSEPH | 1 | 62.6% | -16.2% |
| GRAY, LINDA LAMEY | 1 | 82.8% | +16.9% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18344881 | VAPORIZATION CORE FOR E-CIGARETTE, CARTRIDGE FOR E-CIGARETTE, AND E-CIGARETTE | GRAY, LINDA LAMEY | — |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18476304 | POWER SUPPLY ASSEMBLY OF AEROSOL-GENERATION APPARATUS AND E-CIGARETTE | WEILER, NICHOLAS JOSEPH | 47d |
| 18650138 | ATOMIZATION DEVICE AND ELECTRONIC CIGARETTE HAVING SAME | NGUYEN, SONNY V | — |
| 18639979 | ATOMIZATION CORE OF E-CIGARETTE AND E-CIGARETTE | CULBERT, COURTNEY GUENTHER | — |
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 4 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18744725 | ATOMIZATION DEVICE FOR ELECTRONIC CIGARETTE AND ELECTRONIC CIGARETTE | KESSIE, JENNIFER A | — |
| 18650138 | ATOMIZATION DEVICE AND ELECTRONIC CIGARETTE HAVING SAME | NGUYEN, SONNY V | — |
| 18638674 | E-CIGARETTE ATOMIZATION DEVICE AND E-CIGARETTE | NGUYEN, PHU HOANG | — |
| 18344881 | VAPORIZATION CORE FOR E-CIGARETTE, CARTRIDGE FOR E-CIGARETTE, AND E-CIGARETTE | GRAY, LINDA LAMEY | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1749 | 1 |
| 1745 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18744725 | ATOMIZATION DEVICE FOR ELECTRONIC CIGARETTE AND ELECTRONIC CIGARETTE | KESSIE, JENNIFER A | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 17, 2024 |
| 18650138 | ATOMIZATION DEVICE AND ELECTRONIC CIGARETTE HAVING SAME | NGUYEN, SONNY V | — | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 30, 2024 |
| 18639979 | ATOMIZATION CORE OF E-CIGARETTE AND E-CIGARETTE | CULBERT, COURTNEY GUENTHER | — | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 19, 2024 |
| 18638674 | E-CIGARETTE ATOMIZATION DEVICE AND E-CIGARETTE | NGUYEN, PHU HOANG | — | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 18, 2024 |
| 18476304 | POWER SUPPLY ASSEMBLY OF AEROSOL-GENERATION APPARATUS AND E-CIGARETTE | WEILER, NICHOLAS JOSEPH | 1749 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | 47d | Pending | Sep 27, 2023 |
| 18344881 | VAPORIZATION CORE FOR E-CIGARETTE, CARTRIDGE FOR E-CIGARETTE, AND E-CIGARETTE | GRAY, LINDA LAMEY | 1745 | §112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jun 30, 2023 |
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