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 • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Foshan City Meiwanbang Technology Co. Ltd. is currently addressing 1 pending office action in the Chemistry & Materials technology area. This matter is assigned to 1 distinct examiner, reflecting a concentrated prosecution effort for the company. The action is situated within 1 distinct art unit, which suggests a specialized technical focus for the pending application.
The busiest examiner, RUSSELL, STEPHEN MATTHEW, is overseeing the 1 pending office action. Since the busiest examiner pending count of 1 matches the total number of 1 pending actions, the portfolio's current progress is entirely subject to this 1 examiner's evaluation. This concentration allows the company to tailor its arguments specifically to the examiner's past patterns and the technical standards of the 1 art unit involved. Practitioners should prioritize a clear technical dialogue with the examiner identified to resolve the pending matter efficiently.
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 |
|---|---|
| §102 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| RUSSELL, STEPHEN MATTHEW | 1 | 63.6% | +34.4% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18247581 | Automatic Forming Machine for Pulp Molding Product | RUSSELL, STEPHEN MATTHEW | 28d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1748 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18247581 | Automatic Forming Machine for Pulp Molding Product | RUSSELL, STEPHEN MATTHEW | 1748 | §102 | Final Rejection | 28d overdue | Pending | Aug 07, 2024 |
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