Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
3 pending office actions • 2 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 5 patents granted in the last 365 days
Fujian Golden Dragon Rare-Earth Co. Ltd. manages a company patent portfolio in the Chemistry & Materials technology area. The portfolio currently has 4 pending office actions. These actions are distributed among 4 distinct examiners and 3 distinct art units. This indicates a broad prosecution footprint where the company's innovations are being evaluated by multiple technical specialists across different departments.
CARPENTER, JOSHUA S is identified as the busiest examiner for this portfolio. This examiner is responsible for 1 pending office action. This represents a portion of the total pending actions currently active. Since each of the distinct examiners is handling a single action, the company's current workload is evenly distributed across its active prosecution tracks.
The use of 3 distinct art units suggests that the company's research spans several specialized classifications within the Chemistry & Materials field. With 4 distinct examiners involved, the company must manage four separate dialogues simultaneously. This structure requires a high degree of coordination to ensure that responses to the active office actions remain consistent with the company's overall strategy. Resolving the concerns of CARPENTER, JOSHUA S is one component of this multi-faceted approach.
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 |
|---|---|
| §112 only | 1 (33%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (67%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| CARPENTER, JOSHUA S | 1 | 51.6% | +37.2% |
| MCGUTHRY BANKS, TIMA MICHELE | 1 | 81.6% | +2.8% |
| O'KEEFE, SEAN P | 1 | 65.6% | +13.6% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18548206 | R-T-B MAGNET AND PREPARATION METHOD THEREFOR | MCGUTHRY BANKS, TIMA MICHELE | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17785041 | NEODYMIUM-IRON-BORON MAGNET MATERIAL, RAW MATERIAL COMPOSITION PREPARATION METHOD THEREFOR AND USE THEREOF | O'KEEFE, SEAN P | 26d |
| 18280725 | MAIN AND AUXILIARY ALLOY-BASED NEODYMIUM-IRON-BORON MAGNET MATERIAL AND PREPARATION METHOD THEREFOR | CARPENTER, JOSHUA 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17785041 | NEODYMIUM-IRON-BORON MAGNET MATERIAL, RAW MATERIAL COMPOSITION PREPARATION METHOD THEREFOR AND USE THEREOF | O'KEEFE, SEAN P | 26d |
| 18280725 | MAIN AND AUXILIARY ALLOY-BASED NEODYMIUM-IRON-BORON MAGNET MATERIAL AND PREPARATION METHOD THEREFOR | CARPENTER, JOSHUA S | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1733 | 2 |
| 1738 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18280725 | MAIN AND AUXILIARY ALLOY-BASED NEODYMIUM-IRON-BORON MAGNET MATERIAL AND PREPARATION METHOD THEREFOR | CARPENTER, JOSHUA S | 1733 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 10, 2023 |
| 18548206 | R-T-B MAGNET AND PREPARATION METHOD THEREFOR | MCGUTHRY BANKS, TIMA MICHELE | 1733 | §112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Aug 28, 2023 |
| 17785041 | NEODYMIUM-IRON-BORON MAGNET MATERIAL, RAW MATERIAL COMPOSITION PREPARATION METHOD THEREFOR AND USE THEREOF | O'KEEFE, SEAN P | 1738 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | 26d | Pending | Jun 13, 2022 |
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Start Free TrialFujian Golden Dragon Rare-Earth Co. Ltd. has 3 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 2 art units and 3 examiners.
Joshua S Carpenter has the most, with 1 of Fujian Golden Dragon Rare-Earth Co. Ltd.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Chemistry & Materials (USPTO Tech Center 1700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
