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
Ineova Corp. currently manages 1 pending office action within the Chemistry & Materials technology area. This prosecution is handled by the distinct examiner, LINGWEN R ZENG, who is also the busiest examiner for the portfolio with 1 pending case. The activity is concentrated in 1 distinct art unit, which relates to the company's filings in Chemistry & Materials.
The involvement of the distinct examiner and the 1 distinct art unit for the pending office action indicates that the current prosecution is centralized. For a practitioner, this concentration in Chemistry & Materials means that the legal strategy is focused on the requirements of LINGWEN R ZENG. This structure allows for a direct approach to overcoming rejections within the assigned art unit.
The presence of the pending office action in the art unit limits the administrative scope of the portfolio. The company can focus its resources on this specific technical area without coordinating across different art units or examiner requirements. This oversight by LINGWEN R ZENG defines the current path for the company's intellectual property objectives in the Chemistry & Materials sector.
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 |
|---|---|
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ZENG, LINGWEN R | 1 | 76.6% | +20.3% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18867545 | SEALED METAL-AIR BATTERY | ZENG, LINGWEN R | 84d |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18867545 | SEALED METAL-AIR BATTERY | ZENG, LINGWEN R | 84d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1723 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18867545 | SEALED METAL-AIR BATTERY | ZENG, LINGWEN R | 1723 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | 84d | Pending | Nov 20, 2024 |
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