Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
2 pending office actions • 1 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 2 patents granted in the last 365 days
Innovation Center Of Yangtze River Delta Zju currently manages 2 pending office actions within the Chemistry & Materials technology area. These active matters are distributed across 2 distinct examiners and 1 distinct art unit. This distribution indicates that while the company's patenting activities involve multiple examiners, they are concentrated within a single administrative group at the patent office.
BELAY, DILNESSA B is identified as the busiest examiner for the portfolio, with 1 pending office action currently assigned. This 1 busiest examiner pending case is part of the company's total active workload of 2 pending office actions. The involvement of 1 distinct art unit and 2 distinct examiners suggests a focused prosecution landscape relative to the 2 pending office actions, as multiple files are being reviewed by different individuals within the same unit. This structure allows the company to manage simultaneous interactions within a single technical division of the Chemistry & Materials sector. The data highlights a portfolio that is administratively concentrated across its 2 pending office actions. Having 2 distinct examiners in 1 distinct art unit provides a specific point of contact within the USPTO while allowing for varied examiner feedback.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| BELAY, DILNESSA B | 1 | 62.1% | +26.0% |
| MORENO, LARK JULIA | 1 | 0.0% | +0.0% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18490310 | GANODERMA LUCIDUM COMPOUND PREPARATION, AND PREPARATION METHOD AND USE THEREOF | MORENO, LARK JULIA | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18435543 | FRESH FOOD PRESERVATION EQUIPMENT | BELAY, DILNESSA B | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1793 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18435543 | FRESH FOOD PRESERVATION EQUIPMENT | BELAY, DILNESSA B | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 07, 2024 |
| 18490310 | GANODERMA LUCIDUM COMPOUND PREPARATION, AND PREPARATION METHOD AND USE THEREOF | MORENO, LARK JULIA | 1793 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Oct 19, 2023 |
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