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
Guangdong Hinno-Tech Co. Ltd. currently faces 1 pending office action in the Chemistry & Materials technology area. The prosecution of this matter involves 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit, reflecting a very narrow administrative footprint. This concentration means that the company's current patent strategy is focused on a single technical path. The alignment of the 1 pending office action with a single art unit suggests a highly specialized application of chemistry.
HESTER, HOLLEY GRACE is the busiest examiner for this portfolio, holding 1 busiest examiner pending action. As the only examiner involved, HESTER, HOLLEY GRACE will determine the outcome of the 1 pending office action. Practitioners should analyze the past decisions of this 1 distinct examiner to better understand the likely trajectory of the application. Tailoring arguments to the specific procedural style of this examiner is essential for a successful outcome.
The 1 distinct art unit suggests that the application is being reviewed by a specialized group within the Chemistry & Materials sector. Because there is only 1 busiest examiner pending action, the company's immediate success at the patent office relies on resolving the specific issues raised in this single case. The 1 pending office action represents the entirety of the active workload for this entity, allowing for a concentrated effort on this specific matter.
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 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| HESTER, HOLLEY GRACE | 1 | 66.7% | +40.8% |
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 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18270154 | EPOXY RESIN COMPOSITION AND TRANSPARENT COMPOSITE MATERIAL COMPRISING SAME, AND LAMINATED BOARD | HESTER, HOLLEY GRACE | 23d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1766 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18270154 | EPOXY RESIN COMPOSITION AND TRANSPARENT COMPOSITE MATERIAL COMPRISING SAME, AND LAMINATED BOARD | HESTER, HOLLEY GRACE | 1766 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 23d | Pending | Jun 28, 2023 |
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