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
City University Of Hong Kong Matter Science Research Institute (Futian) is managing 1 pending office action in the Chemistry & Materials technology area. This matter is assigned to examiner AL-TAWEEL, MUAAMAR QAHTAN, who is the busiest examiner with 1 pending action. The portfolio's current activity involves 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit.
This indicates a focused point of contact within the patent office for the institute's pending application. The presence of 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit suggests that the current legal efforts are focused on a specific technical advancement. Practitioners can expect a singular line of communication with the patent office regarding this 1 pending office action.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| AL-TAWEEL, MUAAMAR QAHTAN | 1 | 78.6% | +23.2% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19026175 | SOFT BISTABLE MAGNETIC ACTUATOR, FATIGUE TESTING DEVICE AND AUTO UNDERWATER VEHICLE | AL-TAWEEL, MUAAMAR QAHTAN | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1742 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19026175 | SOFT BISTABLE MAGNETIC ACTUATOR, FATIGUE TESTING DEVICE AND AUTO UNDERWATER VEHICLE | AL-TAWEEL, MUAAMAR QAHTAN | 1742 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 16, 2025 |
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Start Free TrialCity University Of Hong Kong Matter Science Research Institute (Futian) has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Muaamar Qahtan Al-Taweel has the most, with 1 of City University Of Hong Kong Matter Science Research Institute (Futian)'s pending office actions.
Mostly Chemistry & Materials (USPTO Tech Center 1700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.