Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
4 pending office actions • 4 art units • 4 examiners • 0 of 4 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Guizhou Zhenhua E-Chem Inc. is actively prosecuting a portfolio within the Chemistry & Materials technology area. The company currently faces 4 pending office actions, which are distributed across 4 distinct examiners. This ratio between actions and examiners suggests a broad spread of technical subject matter or a strategy that avoids concentration under a single individual.
The workload is further distributed across 4 distinct art units, reflecting the technical classifications within the Chemistry & Materials sector. RAYMOND, BRITTANY L is identified as the busiest examiner for this portfolio, though they are only responsible for 1 pending office action. This indicates that no single examiner dominates the company's current legal challenges. For the applicant, this distribution requires managing 4 separate examiner personalities and 4 different sets of art unit guidelines simultaneously. This approach can mitigate the risk of a single examiner's bias affecting the entire portfolio.
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 (25%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 3 (75%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| RAYMOND, BRITTANY L | 1 | 77.3% | +10.7% |
| WEST, ROBERT GENE | 1 | 74.8% | +24.4% |
| FEHR, JULIA MARIE | 1 | 51.6% | -2.0% |
| LEONARD, MICHELLE TURNER | 1 | 70.2% | +11.4% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 3 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 |
| 18241023 | Cathode Material for Sodium Ion Battery with Coating Structure and Preparation Method and Use Thereof | RAYMOND, BRITTANY L | — |
| 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 3 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 |
| 18241023 | Cathode Material for Sodium Ion Battery with Coating Structure and Preparation Method and Use Thereof | RAYMOND, BRITTANY L | — |
| 18140916 | Cathode Material for Sodium Ion Battery and Preparation Method and Application thereof | LEONARD, MICHELLE TURNER | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1722 | 1 |
| 1721 | 1 |
| 1725 | 1 |
| 1724 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18241023 | Cathode Material for Sodium Ion Battery with Coating Structure and Preparation Method and Use Thereof | RAYMOND, BRITTANY L | 1722 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 31, 2023 |
| 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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