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 • 4 patents granted in the last 365 days
China Tobacco Hunan Industrial Co. Ltd. has 1 pending office action within the Chemistry & Materials technology area. This matter is being handled by 1 distinct examiner, CULBERT, COURTNEY GUENTHER. The company's prosecution activity is restricted to a distinct art unit, showing a concentrated technical focus. CULBERT, COURTNEY GUENTHER is the busiest examiner, managing the busiest examiner pending action.
With 1 distinct examiner and a distinct art unit, the current prosecution is highly centralized. This 1 pending office action is the only matter currently requiring attention from the patent office for this portfolio. The assignment to a distinct art unit suggests that the chemistry involved is specialized and falls under a specific examination group.
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 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| CULBERT, COURTNEY GUENTHER | 1 | 26.9% | +8.2% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17057605 | COOLING FILTER ROD, APPLICATION THEREOF AND CIGARETTE | CULBERT, COURTNEY GUENTHER | 5d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1747 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17057605 | COOLING FILTER ROD, APPLICATION THEREOF AND CIGARETTE | CULBERT, COURTNEY GUENTHER | 1747 | §103 | Final Rejection | 5d | Pending | Nov 20, 2020 |
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