Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals
3 pending office actions • 1 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 4 patents granted in the last 365 days
Hanwha TotalEnergies Petrochemical Co., Ltd. currently manages 3 pending office actions within the Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals technology area. These actions are concentrated within 1 distinct art unit, suggesting a specific technical focus for the company's current patent applications. The prosecution involves 3 distinct examiners, meaning that each pending action is being reviewed by a different individual within that single unit. This structure allows for a relatively centralized legal strategy compared to portfolios spread across multiple units.
BAUM, ZACHARY JOHN is identified as the busiest examiner for this portfolio, currently overseeing 1 busiest examiner pending office action. This specific examiner is responsible for a portion of the 3 pending office actions currently active for the company. The presence of 1 distinct art unit combined with 3 distinct examiners shows that the company's workload is being handled by multiple people within the same technical group. Having 1 busiest examiner pending action assigned to BAUM, ZACHARY JOHN ensures that at least one examiner is familiar with the Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals 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 (33%) |
| §102 only | 1 (33%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (33%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| BAUM, ZACHARY JOHN | 1 | 81.5% | +14.9% |
| KAUCHER, MARK S | 1 | 72.4% | +14.0% |
| HOU, FRANK S | 1 | 68.3% | +34.8% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18291068 | HIGHLY ACTIVE DRY REFORMING CATALYST, AND PREPARATION METHOD THEREOF | BAUM, ZACHARY JOHN | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18516424 | METHOD FOR PRODUCING PROPYLENE COPOLYMER USING CATALYST SYSTEM HAVING IMPROVED COPOLYMERIZATION ACTIVITY | KAUCHER, MARK S | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18344614 | NOVEL TRANSITION METAL COMPOUND, TRANSITION METAL CATALYST COMPOSITION CONTAINING THE SAME, AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING COPOLYMER OF ETHYLENE AND a-OLEFIN USING THE SAME | HOU, FRANK S | 5d |
| 18291068 | HIGHLY ACTIVE DRY REFORMING CATALYST, AND PREPARATION METHOD THEREOF | BAUM, ZACHARY JOHN | — |
| 18516424 | METHOD FOR PRODUCING PROPYLENE COPOLYMER USING CATALYST SYSTEM HAVING IMPROVED COPOLYMERIZATION ACTIVITY | KAUCHER, MARK S | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1692 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18291068 | HIGHLY ACTIVE DRY REFORMING CATALYST, AND PREPARATION METHOD THEREOF | BAUM, ZACHARY JOHN | — | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 22, 2024 |
| 18516424 | METHOD FOR PRODUCING PROPYLENE COPOLYMER USING CATALYST SYSTEM HAVING IMPROVED COPOLYMERIZATION ACTIVITY | KAUCHER, MARK S | — | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 21, 2023 |
| 18344614 | NOVEL TRANSITION METAL COMPOUND, TRANSITION METAL CATALYST COMPOSITION CONTAINING THE SAME, AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING COPOLYMER OF ETHYLENE AND a-OLEFIN USING THE SAME | HOU, FRANK S | 1692 | §103 | Final Rejection | 5d | Pending | Jun 29, 2023 |
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