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
Electric Pwr Res Inst China South Pwr Grid maintains a company patent portfolio in the Chemistry & Materials technology area. There is currently 1 pending office action associated with this portfolio. This 1 action is assigned to 1 distinct examiner, MUI, CHRISTINE T, who operates within 1 distinct art unit. The busiest examiner, MUI, CHRISTINE T, is responsible for 1 pending action, which represents the entirety of the institution's current pending workload. This concentration indicates a very specific focus for the active patent prosecution.
With only 1 pending office action and 1 distinct examiner, the institution's immediate patenting strategy is centered on 1 point of contact at the patent office. The presence of 1 distinct art unit suggests that the current matter falls within a specific technical niche of Chemistry & Materials. Practitioners can focus their efforts on the examination history and preferences of MUI, CHRISTINE T. Because the busiest examiner pending count of 1 matches the total number of pending office actions, the resolution of this case is the primary factor in the portfolio's current progress.
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 |
|---|---|
| §101 + other | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| MUI, CHRISTINE T | 1 | 78.3% | +19.9% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18282366 | METHOD FOR PREDICTING RELIABILITY OF CROSS-LINKED POLYETHYLENE CABLE INSULATION MATERIAL | MUI, CHRISTINE T | 20d |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18282366 | METHOD FOR PREDICTING RELIABILITY OF CROSS-LINKED POLYETHYLENE CABLE INSULATION MATERIAL | MUI, CHRISTINE T | 20d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1797 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18282366 | METHOD FOR PREDICTING RELIABILITY OF CROSS-LINKED POLYETHYLENE CABLE INSULATION MATERIAL | MUI, CHRISTINE T | 1797 | §101§103 | Final Rejection | 20d | Pending | Sep 15, 2023 |
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