Prosecution Insights
Last updated: October 04, 2026

Hebei University

Technology area: Chemistry & Materials

1 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready

Analysis

Hebei University has 1 pending office action in the Chemistry & Materials technology area. This action is assigned to 1 distinct examiner. The prosecution is active within 1 distinct art unit, reflecting a focused effort in the university's chemical research portfolio.

KOPEC, MARK T is the busiest examiner, managing 1 pending office action. This single action constitutes the entire pending workload for the university in the Chemistry & Materials area. Because only 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit are involved, the prosecution of this 1 pending office action is highly centralized. Practitioners can focus on the specific requirements of this examiner and art unit to manage the university's current patent interests.

Written from this page's own data; every figure is computed from USPTO records and verified before publication.

Portfolio Summary

1
Total Pending OAs
1
Non-Final OAs
0
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Case Difficulty Mix

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.

0
Hard (0%)
0
Medium (0%)
1
Easy (100%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§112 only1 (100%)

Industry Mix

How the docket's pending cases split across USPTO tech-center bands.

1
Life Sciences
100% of docket
0
Information Tech
0% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
0
Semiconductors
0% of docket
0
Mechanical / Eng
0% of docket
0
Business / Other
0% of docket

Time-on-OA Estimate

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.

10 h
Manual time on pending OAs
2 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
4 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
0.1 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
KOPEC, MARK T 1 84.5% +12.9%

Quick Wins (1)

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 #TitleExaminerDue in
19200734 COMPOSITE SODIUM ION BATTERY CATHODE MATERIAL WITH RADIAL HETEROJUNCTION AND PREPARATION METHOD THEREOF KOPEC, MARK T —

Interview Candidates (1)

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 #TitleExaminerDue in
19200734 COMPOSITE SODIUM ION BATTERY CATHODE MATERIAL WITH RADIAL HETEROJUNCTION AND PREPARATION METHOD THEREOF KOPEC, MARK T —

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
1762 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
19200734 COMPOSITE SODIUM ION BATTERY CATHODE MATERIAL WITH RADIAL HETEROJUNCTION AND PREPARATION METHOD THEREOF KOPEC, MARK T 1762 §112 Non-Final OA — Pending May 07, 2025

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