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 • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
China National Building Material Group Co. Ltd. is active in the Chemistry & Materials technology area. The company currently has 1 pending office action. This action is distributed to 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit. This reflects a specific focus within the materials science domain for the company's current filings.
CASE, SARAH CATHERINE is the busiest examiner for this portfolio. This examiner is currently managing 1 pending office action. Because the portfolio has 1 distinct examiner and 1 pending office action, the workload is completely centralized. This reflects a specific focus within the Chemistry & Materials sector. For practitioners, this means that the company's immediate patent goals are subject to the review of 1 distinct examiner. The presence of 1 distinct art unit further emphasizes the specialized nature of the pending matter. With 1 pending office action total, the company's current interaction with the patent office is concentrated under CASE, SARAH CATHERINE.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| CASE, SARAH CATHERINE | 1 | 41.1% | +50.8% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18546230 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR HIGH-THROUGHPUT PREPARATION OF A CEMENT-BASED MATERIAL | CASE, SARAH CATHERINE | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18546230 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR HIGH-THROUGHPUT PREPARATION OF A CEMENT-BASED MATERIAL | CASE, SARAH CATHERINE | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1731 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18546230 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR HIGH-THROUGHPUT PREPARATION OF A CEMENT-BASED MATERIAL | CASE, SARAH CATHERINE | 1731 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 11, 2023 |
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