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
Gridtential Energy Inc. currently has 2 pending office actions within the Chemistry & Materials technology area. These actions are distributed across 2 distinct art units, suggesting that the company's technical filings are being evaluated by different specialized groups within the patent office. The presence of distinct examiners further indicates that the workload is not concentrated under a single individual, providing variety in the examination perspectives encountered by the applicant. This distribution can help mitigate the risk of a single examiner's bias affecting the entire portfolio.
CHUO, TONY SHENG HSIANG is identified as the busiest examiner for this portfolio, with 1 busiest examiner pending action. Given that there are 2 pending office actions in total, this examiner is responsible for a portion of the company's current active prosecution. The use of multiple art units within the Chemistry & Materials sector implies that the company is navigating different sub-specialties, requiring a strategy that can adapt to the different standards of each unit. Effective management of these concurrent actions will be key to the company's growth in the Chemistry & Materials field.
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 |
|---|---|
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| CHUO, TONY SHENG HSIANG | 1 | 45.8% | +7.2% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18106389 | BIPOLAR BATTERY PLATE CONFIGURATION AND FABRICATION TECHNIQUES | CHUO, TONY SHENG HSIANG | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1751 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18106389 | BIPOLAR BATTERY PLATE CONFIGURATION AND FABRICATION TECHNIQUES | CHUO, TONY SHENG HSIANG | 1751 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 06, 2023 |
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