Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Evertree has 2 pending office actions within the Chemistry & Materials technology area. The workload is distributed across 2 distinct examiners and 2 distinct art units, indicating that each application is being reviewed in a separate administrative environment. ZHANG, RUIYUN is the busiest examiner for the portfolio, holding 1 pending office action. This 1 action accounts for 1 of the 2 pending office actions currently active for the company.
The use of 2 distinct examiners in 2 distinct art units suggests that the pending applications may cover different sub-sectors within the Chemistry & Materials field. Practitioners must navigate the specific requirements of 2 distinct examiners, as the 2 pending office actions are not concentrated in a single unit. This decentralized structure for 2 pending office actions requires a flexible prosecution approach to accommodate different examiner styles and art unit guidelines. The involvement of 2 distinct art units implies that the company must adapt to two different sets of examination guidelines simultaneously.
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 (50%) |
| §112 only | 1 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ZHANG, RUIYUN | 1 | 70.3% | +10.7% |
| LING, DORIS | 1 | 25.0% | +27.3% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17755264 | COMPOSITION COMPRISING GROUND PLANT SEED, PROTEIN ISOLATE, STARCH OR A MIXTURE THEREOF, METAL OXIDE AND PLASTICIZER | LING, DORIS | 19d |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17755264 | COMPOSITION COMPRISING GROUND PLANT SEED, PROTEIN ISOLATE, STARCH OR A MIXTURE THEREOF, METAL OXIDE AND PLASTICIZER | LING, DORIS | 19d |
| 18554384 | PROCESS FOR THE MANUFACTURE OF A LIGNOCELLULOSIC FIBRE-BASED COMPOSITE MATERIAL USING FORMULATED PLANT SEED PELLETS AND COMPOSITE MATERIAL OBTAINED BY SUCH PROCESS | ZHANG, RUIYUN | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1782 | 1 |
| 1764 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18554384 | PROCESS FOR THE MANUFACTURE OF A LIGNOCELLULOSIC FIBRE-BASED COMPOSITE MATERIAL USING FORMULATED PLANT SEED PELLETS AND COMPOSITE MATERIAL OBTAINED BY SUCH PROCESS | ZHANG, RUIYUN | 1782 | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 06, 2023 |
| 17755264 | COMPOSITION COMPRISING GROUND PLANT SEED, PROTEIN ISOLATE, STARCH OR A MIXTURE THEREOF, METAL OXIDE AND PLASTICIZER | LING, DORIS | 1764 | §103 | Final Rejection | 19d | Pending | Apr 25, 2022 |
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Start Free TrialEvertree has 2 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 2 art units and 2 examiners.
Ruiyun Zhang has the most, with 1 of Evertree's pending office actions.
Mostly Chemistry & Materials (USPTO Tech Center 1700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
