Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 5 patents granted in the last 365 days
Hydro-Québec is currently handling 2 pending office actions within the Chemistry & Materials technology area. These matters are distributed across 2 distinct examiners and 2 distinct art units, indicating a multi-faceted prosecution approach. The busiest examiner, NGUYEN, KEVIN NMN, is responsible for 1 busiest examiner pending office action.
The use of 2 distinct examiners and 2 distinct art units suggests that the company patent portfolio covers a range of technical subjects within the Chemistry & Materials sector. This diversification requires the legal team to adapt to different examination styles and art unit norms simultaneously. Since the busiest examiner manages 1 busiest examiner pending action, the workload is balanced across the 2 distinct examiners.
For practitioners, managing 2 pending office actions across 2 distinct art units requires a broad understanding of different USPTO guidelines. The outcome of the busiest examiner matter with NGUYEN, KEVIN NMN will be a key indicator of success, but it does not represent the entirety of the portfolio potential. Maintaining consistency across both examiners is essential for a cohesive intellectual property strategy.
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 | 2 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| NGUYEN, KEVIN NMN | 1 | 82.5% | +8.7% |
| CHUO, TONY SHENG HSIANG | 1 | 45.8% | +7.2% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17760011 | SURFACE-MODIFIED ELECTRODES, PREPARATION METHODS AND USES IN ELECTROCHEMICAL CELLS | NGUYEN, KEVIN NMN | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1752 | 1 |
| 1751 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17760011 | SURFACE-MODIFIED ELECTRODES, PREPARATION METHODS AND USES IN ELECTROCHEMICAL CELLS | NGUYEN, KEVIN NMN | 1752 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 03, 2022 |
| 17203277 | SECONDARY BATTERY | CHUO, TONY SHENG HSIANG | 1751 | §103 | Final Rejection | 2d overdue | Pending | Mar 16, 2021 |
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