Prosecution Insights
Last updated: August 15, 2026

Fujian Golden Dragon Rare-Earth Co. Ltd.

9 pending office actions • 4 art units • 7 examiners • 0 of 9 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 8 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

9
Total Pending OAs
6
Non-Final OAs
2
Final Rejections
1
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 4 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

2
Overdue
0
Due this week
1
Due this month
0
Due in next 60 days
1
Due later

Deadline Fire Line

Every pending office action with a known statutory deadline, placed on a days-until-due axis. Dots left of Today are overdue; the further right, the more runway. Cases that share a deadline window stack vertically. 4 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (2)Due ≤ 30 days (1)Due later (1)

Case Difficulty Mix

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.

6
Hard (67%)
2
Medium (22%)
1
Easy (11%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only1 (11%)
§112 only1 (11%)
Double-patenting + other1 (11%)
Multi-statute (no §101)6 (67%)

Industry Mix

How the docket's pending cases split across USPTO tech-center bands.

9
Life Sciences
100% of docket
0
Information Tech
0% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
0
Semiconductors
0% of docket
0
Mechanical / Eng
0% of docket
0
Business / Other
0% of docket

Time-on-OA Estimate

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.

90 h
Manual time on pending OAs
18 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
31 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
0.8 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
CARPENTER, JOSHUA S 3 50.9% +38.7%
CARDA, DANIELLE MARIE 1 83.5% +12.4%
MCGUTHRY BANKS, TIMA MICHELE 1 81.7% +2.2%
YANG, JIE 1 62.2% +19.4%
O'KEEFE, SEAN P 1 65.6% +12.5%
WANG, NICHOLAS A 1 53.8% +22.2%
HILL, STEPHANI A 1 29.5% +44.4%

Hard Cases (6)

Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 6 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
17600107 RTB-Based Permanent Magnet Material, Preparation Method thereof, and Application thereof HILL, STEPHANI A 42d overdue
17785041 NEODYMIUM-IRON-BORON MAGNET MATERIAL, RAW MATERIAL COMPOSITION PREPARATION METHOD THEREFOR AND USE THEREOF O'KEEFE, SEAN P 26d
18411258 NEODYMIUM-IRON-BORON MAGNET MATERIAL, PREPARATION METHOD AND USE THEREFOR CARDA, DANIELLE MARIE
18546486 NEODYMIUM-IRON-BORON MAGNET AND PREPARATION METHOD THEREFOR CARPENTER, JOSHUA S
18548206 R-T-B MAGNET AND PREPARATION METHOD THEREFOR MCGUTHRY BANKS, TIMA MICHELE
18277523 R-T-B MAGNET AND PREPARATION METHOD THEREFOR CARPENTER, JOSHUA S

Interview Candidates (8)

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 8 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
17635156 R-T-B SERIES PERMANENT MAGNET MATERIAL, RAW MATERIAL COMPOSITION, PREPARATION METHOD AND APPLICATION WANG, NICHOLAS A 45d overdue
17600107 RTB-Based Permanent Magnet Material, Preparation Method thereof, and Application thereof HILL, STEPHANI A 42d overdue
17785041 NEODYMIUM-IRON-BORON MAGNET MATERIAL, RAW MATERIAL COMPOSITION PREPARATION METHOD THEREFOR AND USE THEREOF O'KEEFE, SEAN P 26d
17787283 NEODYMIUM-IRON-BORON PERMANENT MAGNET MATERIAL, PREPARATION METHOD, AND APPLICATION YANG, JIE 86d
18411258 NEODYMIUM-IRON-BORON MAGNET MATERIAL, PREPARATION METHOD AND USE THEREFOR CARDA, DANIELLE MARIE
18546486 NEODYMIUM-IRON-BORON MAGNET AND PREPARATION METHOD THEREFOR CARPENTER, JOSHUA S
18280725 MAIN AND AUXILIARY ALLOY-BASED NEODYMIUM-IRON-BORON MAGNET MATERIAL AND PREPARATION METHOD THEREFOR CARPENTER, JOSHUA S
18277523 R-T-B MAGNET AND PREPARATION METHOD THEREFOR CARPENTER, JOSHUA S

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
1733 4
1738 2
1734 2
1735 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18411258 NEODYMIUM-IRON-BORON MAGNET MATERIAL, PREPARATION METHOD AND USE THEREFOR CARDA, DANIELLE MARIE 1738 §103§112 Non-Final OA Pending Jan 12, 2024
18546486 NEODYMIUM-IRON-BORON MAGNET AND PREPARATION METHOD THEREFOR CARPENTER, JOSHUA S 1733 §103§112 Non-Final OA Pending Dec 21, 2023
18280725 MAIN AND AUXILIARY ALLOY-BASED NEODYMIUM-IRON-BORON MAGNET MATERIAL AND PREPARATION METHOD THEREFOR CARPENTER, JOSHUA S 1733 §112 Non-Final OA Pending Sep 10, 2023
18548206 R-T-B MAGNET AND PREPARATION METHOD THEREFOR MCGUTHRY BANKS, TIMA MICHELE 1733 §103§112Other Non-Final OA Pending Aug 28, 2023
18277523 R-T-B MAGNET AND PREPARATION METHOD THEREFOR CARPENTER, JOSHUA S 1733 §103§112 Non-Final OA Pending Aug 16, 2023
17787283 NEODYMIUM-IRON-BORON PERMANENT MAGNET MATERIAL, PREPARATION METHOD, AND APPLICATION YANG, JIE 1734 §103DP Non-Final OA 86d Pending Jun 17, 2022
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
17635156 R-T-B SERIES PERMANENT MAGNET MATERIAL, RAW MATERIAL COMPOSITION, PREPARATION METHOD AND APPLICATION WANG, NICHOLAS A 1734 §103 Final Rejection 45d overdue Pending Feb 14, 2022
17600107 RTB-Based Permanent Magnet Material, Preparation Method thereof, and Application thereof HILL, STEPHANI A 1735 §103§112 Final Rejection 42d overdue Pending Sep 30, 2021

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