Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
3 pending office actions • 2 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 12 patents granted in the last 365 days
China National Petroleum Corporation currently manages 3 pending office actions within the Chemistry & Materials technology area. These matters are distributed across 3 distinct examiners and 2 distinct art units. This distribution suggests a focused but slightly divided prosecution strategy where the technical subject matter spans multiple specialized groups within the patent office. Practitioners should note the coordination required across 2 distinct art units for this portfolio, as different units may have varying timelines or procedural nuances.
The busiest examiner is RODD, CHRISTOPHER M, who is responsible for 1 pending office action. This indicates that the workload is evenly spread among the 3 distinct examiners, as no single individual holds more than 1 of the 3 pending office actions. Because each examiner handles a single action, the company benefits from multiple independent reviews of its technology. This arrangement ensures that the 3 pending office actions are not concentrated under a single point of failure or specific examiner bias, providing a broader perspective on the portfolio's patentability across the 2 distinct art units involved.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 2 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 | 3 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| RODD, CHRISTOPHER M | 1 | 72.7% | +11.8% |
| TUCKER, PHILIP C | 1 | 24.6% | +18.7% |
| BHUSHAN, KUMAR R | 1 | 73.4% | +32.8% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18477066 | METHODS OF DELAYING THE DISSOLUTION RATE OF DISSOLVABLE RUBBERS | TUCKER, PHILIP C | 9d |
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 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18477066 | METHODS OF DELAYING THE DISSOLUTION RATE OF DISSOLVABLE RUBBERS | TUCKER, PHILIP C | 9d |
| 18205236 | Multifunctional Slickwater Fracturing Fluid | BHUSHAN, KUMAR R | 41d |
| 18524448 | HIGH RESILIENCE, LOW COMPRESSION SET, ABRASION RESISTANT HYDROGENATED NITRILE BUTADIENE RUBBER (HNBR) COMPOUND FOR HIGH TEMPERATURE HIGH PRESSURE O&G APPLICATIONS | RODD, CHRISTOPHER M | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1745 | 1 |
| 1766 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18524448 | HIGH RESILIENCE, LOW COMPRESSION SET, ABRASION RESISTANT HYDROGENATED NITRILE BUTADIENE RUBBER (HNBR) COMPOUND FOR HIGH TEMPERATURE HIGH PRESSURE O&G APPLICATIONS | RODD, CHRISTOPHER M | — | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Nov 30, 2023 |
| 18477066 | METHODS OF DELAYING THE DISSOLUTION RATE OF DISSOLVABLE RUBBERS | TUCKER, PHILIP C | 1745 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 9d | Pending | Sep 28, 2023 |
| 18205236 | Multifunctional Slickwater Fracturing Fluid | BHUSHAN, KUMAR R | 1766 | §103 | Final Rejection | 41d | Pending | Jun 02, 2023 |
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