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
Chopvalue Manufacturing Ltd. currently manages 1 pending office action within the Chemistry & Materials technology area. This single active matter is assigned to 1 distinct examiner, PO, MING CHEUNG, who is also identified as the busiest examiner with 1 pending application. The concentration of the portfolio is further evidenced by its presence in 1 distinct art unit.
For practitioners, this indicates a focused prosecution effort where all current interactions are centralized under 1 distinct examiner. This 1 to 1 ratio between pending actions and examiners suggests that the company's immediate patent strategy is contained within a specific technical niche. Monitoring the progress of this 1 pending office action is critical for the development of the Chemistry & Materials portfolio.
The reliance on 1 distinct art unit and 1 distinct examiner, PO, MING CHEUNG, means that the company's success depends on a single administrative path. With 1 pending application, the company can focus its resources on meeting the specific requirements of the patent office. This streamlined structure simplifies the management of the company's active intellectual property matters at this time.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| PO, MING CHEUNG | 1 | 37.7% | +13.7% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17642544 | Manufacturing Process for Components from Coffee Grounds and Their Use | PO, MING CHEUNG | 69d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1771 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17642544 | Manufacturing Process for Components from Coffee Grounds and Their Use | PO, MING CHEUNG | 1771 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 69d | Pending | Mar 11, 2022 |
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