Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
1 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 2 patents granted in the last 365 days
Ihi Ionbond AG has 1 pending office action in the Chemistry & Materials technology area. This action is situated in 1 distinct art unit, showing a focused area of examination for the company's current filings. The prosecution is being handled by 1 distinct examiner, DAVIS, SHENG HAN, who is assigned to the pending matter. This concentration in 1 distinct art unit allows for a specialized legal approach tailored to specific technical standards.
DAVIS, SHENG HAN is the busiest examiner for this portfolio, with 1 pending office action under review. Since the company has only 1 pending office action, this examiner manages the entire current pending workload. The involvement of 1 distinct examiner suggests a very direct prosecution environment. Practitioners can concentrate their efforts on meeting the specific expectations of DAVIS, SHENG HAN and the technical standards of the assigned art unit to advance the application.
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 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| DAVIS, SHENG HAN | 1 | 66.3% | +33.3% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18043470 | DOPED DLC FOR TRIBOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS | DAVIS, SHENG HAN | 3d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1732 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18043470 | DOPED DLC FOR TRIBOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS | DAVIS, SHENG HAN | 1732 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 3d overdue | Pending | Feb 28, 2023 |
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