Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Computing & Software
1 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Hangzhou First Electronic Material Co. Ltd. maintains a presence in the Computing & Software technology area with its current patent portfolio. The data shows 1 pending office action, reflecting a very specific and limited scope of active prosecution. This single action indicates a focused effort on a particular software or computing innovation. Such a targeted filing strategy suggests that the company is currently prioritizing a specific technical solution within its broader field.
The prosecution process involves 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit. This concentration suggests that the company current filings are being evaluated by a single specialized group within the patent office. For the applicant, this means that the examination process is streamlined within one technical domain rather than being fragmented across multiple departments, allowing for a more consistent legal approach.
STCLAIR, ANDREW D is the busiest examiner, currently handling 1 pending office action. This examiner is responsible for the only active matter in the portfolio. Therefore, the company immediate success in securing these computing patents depends on the specific feedback and requirements provided by this one examiner, as the busiest examiner pending count of 1 represents the entire active workload.
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 |
|---|---|
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| STCLAIR, ANDREW D | 1 | 60.2% | +25.3% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17638204 | RESIN COMPOSITION AND USE THEREOF | STCLAIR, ANDREW D | 534d 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 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17638204 | RESIN COMPOSITION AND USE THEREOF | STCLAIR, ANDREW D | 534d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2178 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17638204 | RESIN COMPOSITION AND USE THEREOF | STCLAIR, ANDREW D | 2178 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | 534d overdue | Pending | Feb 25, 2022 |
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