Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
1 pending office actions • 0 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 3 patents granted in the last 365 days
Hefei Institutes Of Physical Science Cas is currently managing 1 pending office action. This matter is assigned to 1 distinct examiner, BOLTON, WILLIAM A, who is responsible for 1 pending office action. The presence of the distinct examiner for the pending office action suggests a very direct and focused interaction with the USPTO.
The applicant can focus their efforts on the specific feedback provided by BOLTON, WILLIAM A, allowing for a more personalized prosecution strategy. This direct point of contact simplifies the management of the company's intellectual property assets. The pending office action represents the entirety of the company's current active engagement with the examiner's office.
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 |
|---|---|
| §102 only | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| BOLTON, WILLIAM A | 1 | 89.3% | +5.7% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18802546 | EXPLOSION-DRIVEN MULTI-BREAK CIRCUIT BREAKER | BOLTON, WILLIAM A | — |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18802546 | EXPLOSION-DRIVEN MULTI-BREAK CIRCUIT BREAKER | BOLTON, WILLIAM A | — | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 13, 2024 |
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