Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Cnpc Research Institute Of Safety & Environment Technology Co. Ltd. has 2 pending office actions in the Chemistry & Materials technology area. These are distributed across 2 distinct art units and 2 distinct examiners. This indicates that each pending matter is being examined in a different technical environment.
MILLER-CRUZ, EKANDRA S. is the busiest examiner with 1 pending office action. With 2 distinct examiners for 2 pending office actions, the workload is split. This means that the 2 pending office actions are subject to independent review processes across the 2 distinct art units.
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 |
|---|---|
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| MILLER-CRUZ, EKANDRA S. | 1 | 65.8% | +51.9% |
| BASS, DIRK R | 1 | 62.4% | +22.8% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18533991 | METHOD FOR DEEP REMOVAL OF DIVALENT AND TRIVALENT SCALING IONS FROM HEAVY OIL PRODUCED WATER | BASS, DIRK R | 43d |
| 18535904 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR RECYCLING HEAVY OIL PRODUCED WATER FOR USE IN STEAM INJECTION BOILER WITHOUT DESILICATION | MILLER-CRUZ, EKANDRA S. | — |
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 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18533991 | METHOD FOR DEEP REMOVAL OF DIVALENT AND TRIVALENT SCALING IONS FROM HEAVY OIL PRODUCED WATER | BASS, DIRK R | 43d |
| 18535904 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR RECYCLING HEAVY OIL PRODUCED WATER FOR USE IN STEAM INJECTION BOILER WITHOUT DESILICATION | MILLER-CRUZ, EKANDRA S. | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1773 | 1 |
| 1779 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18535904 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR RECYCLING HEAVY OIL PRODUCED WATER FOR USE IN STEAM INJECTION BOILER WITHOUT DESILICATION | MILLER-CRUZ, EKANDRA S. | 1773 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 11, 2023 |
| 18533991 | METHOD FOR DEEP REMOVAL OF DIVALENT AND TRIVALENT SCALING IONS FROM HEAVY OIL PRODUCED WATER | BASS, DIRK R | 1779 | §103§112Other | Final Rejection | 43d | Pending | Dec 08, 2023 |
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