Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Fuzetec Technology Co. Ltd. is currently prosecuting 2 pending office actions in the Chemistry & Materials technology area. These actions are split between 2 distinct examiners and 2 distinct art units, showing that each application is being evaluated in a different administrative and technical environment. This distribution prevents any concentration of the workload within a unified group. The applicant must be prepared to address the specific technical standards of 2 distinct art units while coordinating with the 2 distinct examiners.
NGUYEN, TRI V is the busiest examiner for this company, with 1 pending office action. Since there are multiple examiners for the 2 pending office actions, the applicant must prepare for separate sets of examiner feedback. The involvement of 2 distinct art units within the Chemistry & Materials field suggests that the pending matters involve distinct chemical or material science sub-specialties. NGUYEN, TRI V is responsible for 1 pending office action, and the resolution of this matter will be critical for the company's 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 |
|---|---|
| §103 only | 1 (50%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| NGUYEN, TRI V | 1 | 67.6% | +57.2% |
| CAI, WENWEN | 1 | 59.8% | +19.4% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18311756 | POSITIVE TEMPERATURE COEFFICIENT POLYMER COMPOSITION AND POSITIVE TEMPERATURE COEFFICIENT CIRCUIT PROTECTION DEVICE | CAI, WENWEN | 4d overdue |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18311756 | POSITIVE TEMPERATURE COEFFICIENT POLYMER COMPOSITION AND POSITIVE TEMPERATURE COEFFICIENT CIRCUIT PROTECTION DEVICE | CAI, WENWEN | 4d overdue |
| 19024638 | POSITIVE TEMPERATURE COEFFICIENT POLYMER COMPOSITION AND CIRCUIT PROTECTION DEVICE | NGUYEN, TRI V | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1764 | 1 |
| 1763 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19024638 | POSITIVE TEMPERATURE COEFFICIENT POLYMER COMPOSITION AND CIRCUIT PROTECTION DEVICE | NGUYEN, TRI V | 1764 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jan 16, 2025 |
| 18311756 | POSITIVE TEMPERATURE COEFFICIENT POLYMER COMPOSITION AND POSITIVE TEMPERATURE COEFFICIENT CIRCUIT PROTECTION DEVICE | CAI, WENWEN | 1763 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | 4d overdue | Pending | May 03, 2023 |
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