Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals • Chemistry & Materials
4 pending office actions • 2 art units • 4 examiners • 0 of 4 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 11 patents granted in the last 365 days
Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences is managing 4 pending office actions in the Chemistry & Materials technology area. These matters are distributed across 2 distinct art units and 4 distinct examiners. This distribution indicates that each of the 4 pending actions is being handled by a different examiner.
WEINERT, WILLIAM C is the busiest examiner for the institute, with 1 pending office action currently under review. This represents one of the 4 total pending actions for the portfolio. The use of 2 distinct art units for the pending actions suggests a concentration of technical subject matter despite the involvement of 4 distinct examiners. Practitioners should note that while the actions are spread across multiple examiners, they remain within only 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 |
|---|---|
| §103 only | 2 (50%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (50%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| WEINERT, WILLIAM C | 1 | 58.0% | +34.8% |
| PARENT, ALEXANDER RENE | 1 | 55.6% | +15.6% |
| TAYLOR, JORDAN W | 1 | 63.2% | +36.9% |
| SVEIVEN, MICHAEL CAMERON | 1 | 37.5% | +47.9% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18712781 | GAS-AIR MIXING STRUCTURE AND BURNER | WEINERT, WILLIAM C | — |
| 18578169 | OXYHYDROGEN PREPARATION DEVICE CAPABLE OF ADJUSTING HYDROGEN CONTENT AND USING METHOD THEREOF | PARENT, ALEXANDER RENE | — |
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 4 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17664401 | METHOD FOR DETECTING INTERACTION AND AFFINITY BETWEEN LIGAND AND PROTEIN | SVEIVEN, MICHAEL CAMERON | 85d overdue |
| 18712781 | GAS-AIR MIXING STRUCTURE AND BURNER | WEINERT, WILLIAM C | — |
| 18578169 | OXYHYDROGEN PREPARATION DEVICE CAPABLE OF ADJUSTING HYDROGEN CONTENT AND USING METHOD THEREOF | PARENT, ALEXANDER RENE | — |
| 18026828 | PREPARATION METHOD OF POROUS OXIDE | TAYLOR, JORDAN W | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1738 | 1 |
| 1678 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18712781 | GAS-AIR MIXING STRUCTURE AND BURNER | WEINERT, WILLIAM C | — | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 23, 2024 |
| 18578169 | OXYHYDROGEN PREPARATION DEVICE CAPABLE OF ADJUSTING HYDROGEN CONTENT AND USING METHOD THEREOF | PARENT, ALEXANDER RENE | — | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 10, 2024 |
| 18026828 | PREPARATION METHOD OF POROUS OXIDE | TAYLOR, JORDAN W | 1738 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 17, 2023 |
| 17664401 | METHOD FOR DETECTING INTERACTION AND AFFINITY BETWEEN LIGAND AND PROTEIN | SVEIVEN, MICHAEL CAMERON | 1678 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 85d overdue | Pending | May 20, 2022 |
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