Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
3 pending office actions • 3 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Guizhou Zhenhua E-Chem Inc. currently has 3 pending office actions in the Chemistry & Materials technology area. These actions are distributed across 3 distinct examiners and 3 distinct art units. This broad distribution suggests that the company's innovations in electronic chemicals involve a variety of chemical and material science disciplines. The involvement of 3 distinct art units indicates that the applications cover diverse technical aspects of the company's products, requiring a multifaceted prosecution strategy.
WEST, ROBERT GENE is the busiest examiner for the portfolio, holding 1 pending office action. With 3 distinct examiners each managing a portion of the 3 pending office actions, the workload is spread across the individuals involved. This means that no single examiner has a dominant role in the current prosecution landscape. Each of the pending office actions will be subject to the specific scrutiny of a different examiner, which may lead to varying outcomes across the portfolio.
For a practitioner, managing 3 pending office actions across 3 distinct art units requires a versatile approach to different examination standards. Since WEST, ROBERT GENE only holds 1 pending action, the prosecution strategy must be highly individualized for each case. This variety requires careful attention to the specific requirements of each art unit and examiner. The lack of concentration in a single art unit means that the company's intellectual property is subject to a wide array of patent office policies.
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 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| WEST, ROBERT GENE | 1 | 73.8% | +21.7% |
| FEHR, JULIA MARIE | 1 | 51.6% | -2.0% |
| LEONARD, MICHELLE TURNER | 1 | 69.6% | +9.9% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18222957 | Mono-crystalline Cathode Material for Sodium-ion Battery and Preparation Method and Application Thereof | WEST, ROBERT GENE | 7d |
| 18222961 | Mono-crystalline Cathode Material for Sodium-ion Battery and Preparation Method and Battery Thereof | FEHR, JULIA MARIE | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18222957 | Mono-crystalline Cathode Material for Sodium-ion Battery and Preparation Method and Application Thereof | WEST, ROBERT GENE | 7d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1721 | 1 |
| 1725 | 1 |
| 1724 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18222957 | Mono-crystalline Cathode Material for Sodium-ion Battery and Preparation Method and Application Thereof | WEST, ROBERT GENE | 1721 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 7d | Pending | Jul 17, 2023 |
| 18222961 | Mono-crystalline Cathode Material for Sodium-ion Battery and Preparation Method and Battery Thereof | FEHR, JULIA MARIE | 1725 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jul 17, 2023 |
| 18140916 | Cathode Material for Sodium Ion Battery and Preparation Method and Application thereof | LEONARD, MICHELLE TURNER | 1724 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Apr 28, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialGuizhou Zhenhua E-Chem Inc. has 3 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 3 art units and 3 examiners.
Robert Gene West has the most, with 1 of Guizhou Zhenhua E-Chem Inc.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Chemistry & Materials (USPTO Tech Center 1700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
