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
Inho Song maintains a patent portfolio within the Chemistry & Materials technology area. There is currently 1 pending office action associated with these filings. This level of activity suggests a highly focused approach to securing intellectual property rights in this specific field rather than managing a large volume of concurrent applications.
The prosecution is handled by 1 distinct examiner working within 1 distinct art unit. This structure indicates that the portfolio's current legal challenges are concentrated in one technical area of the patent office. Such a narrow focus allows for a specialized prosecution strategy tailored to the requirements of that 1 distinct art unit, which can lead to more consistent results.
QIAN, SHIZHI is the busiest examiner for this portfolio. This examiner is responsible for the 1 pending office action currently in the pipeline. The progress of the portfolio is therefore directly linked to the review and feedback provided by this single examiner, making their individual examination history a vital resource for the practitioner.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| QIAN, SHIZHI | 1 | 61.8% | +47.9% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18573377 | PALLADIUM-HYDROGEN PH ELECTRODE | QIAN, SHIZHI | 146d overdue |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18573377 | PALLADIUM-HYDROGEN PH ELECTRODE | QIAN, SHIZHI | 146d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1795 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18573377 | PALLADIUM-HYDROGEN PH ELECTRODE | QIAN, SHIZHI | 1795 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | 146d overdue | Pending | Dec 21, 2023 |
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