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
Imperial Systems Inc. maintains 1 pending office action in the Chemistry & Materials technology area. This action is assigned to 1 distinct examiner, QIANPING HE, within 1 distinct art unit. QIANPING HE is the busiest examiner, with 1 busiest examiner pending action. This 1 pending office action indicates a singular focus for the company's current patent prosecution efforts.
Because there is only 1 pending office action, the entire current strategy for the Chemistry & Materials area rests with QIANPING HE. This 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit combination means that the applicant does not have to navigate multiple examination styles or conflicting art unit policies. Practitioners should focus on the specific prosecution history of QIANPING HE, as this busiest examiner handles the only busiest examiner pending action in the portfolio. The 1:1 ratio between the pending office action and the distinct examiner ensures that all current efforts are directed toward a single point of contact within the patent 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 |
|---|---|
| Double-patenting + other | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| HE, QIANPING | 1 | 66.8% | +15.9% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18514949 | Cartridges for Vertically Oriented Dust Collectors | HE, QIANPING | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1776 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18514949 | Cartridges for Vertically Oriented Dust Collectors | HE, QIANPING | 1776 | §102§103DP | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Nov 20, 2023 |
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